Does National Security Expire? The Anarchy The anarchy brewing in Nigeria is near complete. Noting the security problem in Nigeria is dire is not news. It has become a daily and worsening fact. Wear is Nigeria’s national security? No one person or institution is safe from violence in the country…
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Governance
Fulani Herdsmen & The British Legacy of Guilt
Fulani Herdsmen & the British Legacy of Guilt “Guilt by community association” (GBCA) is back in Nigeria in fresh form in 2018. Not by the actions of a foreign colonialist. But those of the local Nigerian auto-colonialists courtesy Fulani herdsmen affairs. In the colonial state of Nigeria, under British rule,…
Can Buhari Win The Oil War?
Can Buhari Win The Oil War? The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) may not be a praiseworthy entity to many but their emergence and defiance have provided a thorough and incisive diagnosis of the dissembling cohesion of the nation-state called Nigeria. Nigeria has never been a thoroughgoing republic but simply a geographical…
Nigeria in Pieces: the Crushing of the Defenceless
Fela once called them vagabonds in power, VIPs. It now seems they are cowards in government, CIGs – Guynes One really has to consider the resounding cowardice of Nigerian leaders with the monopoly of violence at their disposal since the end of the Civil War in 1970. There has been…
Corruption
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick?
Will Bombing Big Thieves Do the Trick? Nations cannot bomb crimes out of existence as the Government of Nigeria seems to think and practice. When purely criminal or illegal activities are committed and perpetuated in a society during peace times and they have no military or genocidal implications, ‘policing’ is…
Nigeria: Globalisation Democracy and the Possibility of a Coup d’etat
The United State of America is the chief exporter of “globalisation democracy” that has seen nations around the globe both encouraged and bullied into taking on two incompatible dictates of governance policy; representative democracy and neoliberalism.
President Jonathan’s Boko Haram Excuse Is Inadequate
When President Goodluck Jonathan claimed he had “underestimated” the Boko Haram insurgency it was the latest in a long series of things he should not have said, another public relations disaster. Underestimation of the obvious is a major signal of administrative competence. Since Jonathan is not a military person his…
Corruption
The Ontology of the African VI: Thieving Patriotism
‘Patriotism of the stomach’ is much more pitiable than it sounds. Patriotism, even in moderate forms, is a thoroughly virtuous state of being to adopt underpinned by loyalty, commitment, support and above all selflessness in support and defence of one’s country. In Africa, it is the reverse, with rare exceptions….