Dreaming of Oil and the Sea: The Mirage in IPOB’s Calculations

Foremost Ijaw Leader, former Federal Commissioner of Information and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, declared unequivocally that the South-South region of the country is not part of the current Biafra agitations.  He postulated that while the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) might be pursuing a noble cause, the methodology…

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America’s Choices and an Unstable Afghanistan

American military interventions globally have been called to question, following the footprints of catastrophic genocides that countries have passed through at America’s exit, due to the emergence of armed groups that put the incumbent regimes on their tenterhooks, with a view to toppling them. This assertion may have been proved right as President Joe Biden…

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National Security: X-raying the Option of Negotiation with Boko Haram

The current spate of banditry, kidnapping, as well as the constant attack on security personnel and facilities, has raised the country’s insecurity challenges to a crescendo. Although one must not fail to admit that issues like banditry and kidnapping are one thing, while Boko Haram is another thing, the purported inability to defeat the insurgents…

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Fifth Columnists, Saboteurs and the Lingering Battle against Insecurity

An army officer and his girlfriend were arrested by authorities in Zamfara State. According to the Zamfara State Government, they were apprehended following their engagement in aiding bandits with military uniforms and ammunition in the state. This was made known by Dr. Bashir Maru, the Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Bello Matawalle, on 5,…

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