PERSPECTIVE – Victory comes from God
By Owei Lakemfa It seemed a depressing day. Sunday July 18, 2021. News filtered that another military aircraft had crashed or been shot down. That would have been the fifth military aircraft lost in…
Category: Security
3% PIB: Militant group directs commanders to return to creeks for hostilities
Angered by the meagre three per cent voted for host communities in the passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a militant group, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has directed its commanders in the Niger Delta…
Gallant Nigeria Air force fighter jet pilot survives terrorist attack, rescued
The Nigeria Airforce has finally revealed that its Alphajet crashed in Zamfara State after an initial denial. It also announced the rescue of the pilot, Flt. Lt. Abayomi Dairo. Airforce spokesman, Air Commodore Edward…
PERSPECTIVE – Bandits can become elected legislators and governors in Nigeria
By Owei Lakemfa The Federal Government, and some state governments, like Kaduna, say they neither negotiate nor pay ransom to bandits. But government being incapable of preventing the mass kidnap of citizens, especially school…
PERSPECTIVE – As in Vietnam, America breaks into a run in Afghanistan
By Owei Lakemfa BAGRAM Airfield and Military Base, 70 kilometres north of Kabul was the epicentre of the 40-country coalition war to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan. At a point in 2012, over 100,000 U.S. troops passed…
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Delta lawmakers open debate as Ban on Open grazing Bill enters second reading
The Bill for a Law to Provide for the Regulation of Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing and To Prohibit Open Grazing and Related Matters now before members of the Delta State House of Assembly…
Open grazing ban: Bill for law now before DTHA, says Okowa’s spokesman
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Delta, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Tuesday said that the state government had begun work toward enacting a law to prohibit open grazing in the state. Ifeajika, who was…
PERSPECTIVE – THE POND: Nigeria’s stripes of democratic dictatorship
By Julius Oweh The world over, democracy is universally acknowledged as the best form of government known to man because it allows for periodic holding of election, choice of the people respected, a free…
PERSPECTIVE – Beyond the attack on Sunday Igboho: Thoughts of a concerned Nigerian
By Femi Mimiko, mni I read the press statement put out by DSS on its early morning invasion of Sunday Igboho's abode, and couldn't stop wondering what was happening! How could a surprise armed attack…
President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti assassinated months after bishops urged him to step down
By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated Wednesday, and his wife was injured months after religious leaders called on him to step down as the country faces what some describe…