Last Tuesday, August 7 2018, Nigerians and the international community woke up to behold a strange sight at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja. Masked security operatives from the Department of State Security DSS, had invaded and blockaded the complex, preventing lawmakers, journalists, workers and Nigerian who had one business or another in the complex from gaining access into it. The siege lasted for some hours before various reactions and interventions brought it to an abrupt end. To say the least, that invasion apart from stalling legislative business especially the planned…
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Police siege on Saraki, Ekweremadu, Dogara condemnable
The reported police siege on the residence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy Ike Ekweremadu and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday once more brings to fore, the obvious danger facing our democracy. This development came on the heels of the planned defection of some APC senators and members of the House of Representatives to PDP. Security agents were said to have taken over the official residence of the said principal officers of the National Assembly presumably to stop them from attending yesterday’s plenary…
Read MoreEkiti Election: A post-mortem
The July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election has come and gone but the dust raised by the highly disputed result as well as the conduct of the election, are yet finally settle. Nigeria Newspoint had in its editorial of July 11 edition reminded all stakeholders in the election on the need to play by the rules especially, security agencies. But hardly had that publication hit the newsstand than reports of alleged invasion of Ekiti Government House by security agencies during which Governor Ayodele Fayose claimed he has pushed and…
Read MoreNeed for FG, NASS to work in harmony
Most Nigerians have described as “triumph of justice”, Friday’s Supreme Court judgment, dismissing the false asset declaration charges against Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. The apex court upheld earlier decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), which discharged and acquitted Saraki in all 18-count-charge against him. In a statement personally signed by him, after the verdict the Senate President while x-raying what he has passed through since his trial began noted that the country itself also suffered as a result of the trial. Senator Bukola Saraki may have won…
Read Morekiller Herdsmen and looming anarchy in Nigeria
On Monday June 25 2018, Nigerians for the umpteenth time woke up to behold another grisly sight of Fulani Herdsmen massacre in Plateau State. The killer Herdsmen reports revealed had attacked about eleven villages in Barkin Ladi LGA Sunday night killing over hundred, injuring many, while many others were declared missing after the attack. In their usual dare devil manner the marauding Herdsmen unleashed violence and death on men, women, children and the aged. They killed every living thing on their path and burnt non living things like houses to…
Read MoreNeed for govt to re-open Douglas Road
Douglas road in Owerri, the Imo state capital is strategically located, and also the commercial nerve center of the state. The nerve centre of an organization or place is where its activities are controlled as well as where bulk of revenue is generated. All over the world, nerve centers exist from where the prosperity of a state or nation is determined. The constituents of these commercial centers may include banks, corporate offices, markets, parks etc. Economic activities around most nerve centers determine the healthy or otherwise nature of the most…
Read MoreTasks before new Imo Police Commissioner
Recently, the Nigeria Police High Command in Abuja posted a new commissioner of police CP Dasuki Galadanchi to Imo State as the 33rd Police Commissioner for the state. The new police boss took over from CP Chris Ezike who was redeployed to the Lious Edet Force Headquarters in Abuja. The belief in many quarters in the state is that CP Ezike whose redeployment could better be described as some sort of palace coup was consumed by politics. More specifically, his sudden transfer has strongly been linked to the internal wrangling…
Read MoreNeed for Imo govt to re-open Douglas Road
Douglas road in Owerri, the Imo state capital is strategically located, and also the commercial nerve center of the state. The nerve centre of an organization or place is where its activities are controlled as well as where bulk of revenue is generated. All over the world, nerve centers exist from where the prosperity of a state or nation is determined. The constituents of these commercial centers may include banks, corporate offices, markets, parks etc. Economic activities around most nerve centers determine the healthy or otherwise nature of the most…
Read MoreSERAP letter to UN on Fulani Herdsmen
Recently, a civil society organization, Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP forwarded a letter to the United Nations, UN, calling on it to declare the Fulani herdsmen a terrorist organization. SERAP’s call came against the backdrop of bloody activities of this dangerous group which has sent thousands of defenceless Nigerians to their untimely death. We have to recall that long before this bold initiative from SERAP, many well meaning Nigerians had also spoken in similar manner and way by telling President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the group a terrorist…
Read More2019: Much ado about re-ordering of election sequence
The recent action of the National Assembly in re-ordering the sequence for the 2019 general elections has been in the front burner of national discourse in the past few weeks. This has been so considering that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had earlier scheduled the order or sequence of the 2019 elections to begin with the presidential election first. Understandably, therefore some interests who have been uncomfortable with the re-ordering of the elections with the presidential election now scheduled to hold, last, apparently jumped into the ring for what…
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