Troops for Mali, Guinea-Bissau a misplaced priority
Monday, 21 May 2012 01:30
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Nigeria, at the meeting of ECOWAS defence ministers, last week, in Abuja, agreed (or was it forced?) to contribute to regional stabilization forces to be sent to Mali and Guinea-Bissau where constitutional governments were overthrown in coups d-etats in March and April respectively. Nigeria is one of four countries (the others are Togo, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire) expected to contribute to a 500-600-strong Guinea-Bissau force.
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Stop the Edo bloodbath
Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:44
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Early in the month, Benin, the capital of Edo state, was left shell-shocked by the grisly murder of Comrade Oyerinde Olaitan, the Principal Private Secretary of the state governor, Adams Oshiomhole. At once, the gruesome act reverberated across the country, reawakening dreadful memories of similar reprehensible and dastardly acts.
Contagious implications of Nigeria’s security challenges
Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:44
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By Aliyu Musa
The overthrow of Togo’s Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio on January 13, 1963 confirmed the latter group’s worse fears. And it set the stage for more military ousting of democratically elected governments, a development that scholars of Military in Politics describe as the contagious effect theory (or what I call the copycat blitz).
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No to increased security vote
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:37
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Penultimate Saturday, one of the weekend newspapers reported that the National Assembly was concluding plans to jack up the N930 billion 2011 Security Vote because the amount is now considered grossly inadequate to cope with the security challenges confronting the nation, but which many have rightly viewed as being unreasonably on the high side considering the dire economic situation in the country.
Adieu, Rashidi Yekini
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:36
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Just as Nigeria was adjusting to the grim reality of the demise of one of its sport icons, Major-General Henry Adefope, the cold hands of death returned to snatch one of the country’s soccer legends and all time leading goal scorer, Rashidi Yekini.
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