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For The Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim

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General Owoye Azazi, Nigerian National Security Adviser, is the man effectively in charge of our nation's security. His unprecedentedly huge budget that translates to N2.0 billion a day, reflects the importance attached to security in these troubled times and attests to his high status in the President Jonathan's court.

 

And now, our own Guantanamo Bay

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For The Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim

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For some weeks now, the Jonathan administration has been flashing across the country, and the rest of the world, what, to many, appear to be contradictory signals, regarding especially the vexed issue of Boko Haram.

 

Otuoke: The height of impunity

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For The Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim

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K.O. Mbadiwe, now no longer with us, was, as many will recall, one of Nigeria's most colourful politicians in both the First and Second Republics. He was a self-styled “man of timber and calibre” who, with time, became, during the Second Republic, a "carterpillar, bulldozer and institution" in Nigerian politics.

 

Boko Haram: A more deadly force is at work

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GUEST COLUMNIST By Dimeji Daniels

I doubt if Nigeria will ever find a solution to the Boko Haram problem until the other more visible Boko Haram lay down its arms and stop waging war against the Nigerian State. This other Boko Haram had positioned itself well before independence and has since eaten deep into the skin of the nation, so much so that the nation's internal organs, which are also presently being infected, now lay bare.

 

Boko Haram: GEJ’s boast and reality

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For The Masses By Rufa’i Ibrahim

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For some time now there has been patting of back and excited chatter among top security chieftains about how the Boko Haram insurgency will soon be history. Its backbone has been broken, we hear. The talk everywhere among these chieftains is that the sect's military infrastructure has been virtually destroyed, most of its top leaders are behind bars, its major supply routes have been identified and blocked and its capacity severely weakened.

 
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