Security

Last Wednesday, Mrs. Amina Zakari, the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) made a bold statement in Akure, Ondo State. On the occasion, she publicly disowned the April 11, 2015 House of […]

While decorating the new service chiefs on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari charged the nation’s armed forces to bring the Boko Haram menace to an end in three months. Militarily speaking, and given the rearmament begun […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has too many things in his plate. And many of them  demand immediate attention. The Naira is in a tailspin in spite of the desperate measures being adopted by the Central Bank […]

VERY soon and very, very soon, about 66 young, promising members of the Nigerian army would face the firing squad having been convicted for mutiny. The concern of this piece is to look at the […]

Justice or peace? Basically, that’s what it boils down to. Since the beginning of the offensive by insurgents in Nigeria, there has been widespread debate about how to bring the bloody onslaught to an end. […]

It is no longer news that the federal government has shown a willingness to negotiate with the dread insurgent sect, Boko Haram. An inkling had been given early last month to this effect through the […]

The out gone Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, is reported to be looking outside the high command for explanations regarding the abysmal failure of the military under his watch to effectively check […]

  Senator Patrick Leahy etched his name in the world of diplomacy through the instrumentality of the American Senate – an institution he has belonged to since 1975 with the promulgation of the Leahy act […]

Patrick Leahy – sponsor of the Leahy Law (or Leahy amendment) that prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defence from providing military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity – believes […]

The fundamental rights to personal liberty and privacy of the home of every Nigerian citizen are constitutionally guaranteed. As fundamental rights are not absolute they may be breached  in accordance with a procedure permitted by […]

The Jama’atul Alhul Sunnah Lidda’watiwul more popularly as boko haram started as a peaceful organization in 2002 with the late Mohammed Yusuf as its founding father. Many never thought that this innocuous organization would end […]

At last, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the service chiefs. Many had expected the President to have relieved them of their appointments shortly after he was sworn-in on May 29. But for reasons known to the […]

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced about a week ago that the Nigerian government was willing to negotiate with the deadly terrorist group, Boko Haram. If we leave […]

If anyone has a good chance of breaking the Boko Haram insurgency, it is President Muhammadu Buhari. He has the experience – having chased killer Maitatsine Muslim fundamentalists all the way into Chad in the […]

The order by President Muhammadu Buhari that military checkpoints across the country be dismantled is understandable given that the job of internal security belongs to the police and the military have enough on their plate […]

SaharaTV correspondent Rudolf Okonkwo spoke with Bakari Sellers, a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, who spoke about the recent terrorist attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church—an historically Black church located […]

The highly respected Sahara Reporters and Premium Times – the online reincarnation of the defunct Next Newspapers made its teeming readers sad by engaging in yellow journalism. They reported that the United States committed $5 […]

On October 17th, 2014, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced a signing of a cease fire with Boko Haram terrorists. The defence chief directed all service chiefs to comply […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has cautioned personnel of the force against the use of firearms during the forthcoming general elections “except in extreme circumstances”. In a statement, the Police Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel […]