As Nigeria continues the search for effective means of stamping out terrorism within its domain, political scientist, Dr. Thomas Brister, expert in terrorism and counter-terrorism at the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina...

Mr. Anthony Sani, chieftain and national publicity secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) told SAXONE AKHAINE, the Guardian Northern Bureau Chief that emergency rule might not solve the problem.

Do you think imposition of emergency rule...

Colonel Abubakar Umar (rtd) former military governor of Kaduna State and rights crusader spoke in an exclusive interview on the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in three states, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Umar...

IN December 2011, the Federal Government declared a state of emergency in 15 local governments in four states - Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger - because of the unrelenting orgy of violence in those areas. Those areas affected councils in the...

Femi Falana (SAN), lawyer and rights activist gives perspective to the emergency rule declared by President Jonathan. 

Implications

THERE is massive violation of the rights of the people in those states in the hands of the terrorists and...

IT had been in the works for many months, but it was not an easy decision to take. There are many angles to it and if not well managed, a declaration of emergency rule could be counter- productive. That had been President Jonathan’s lot -...