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 -...

IRETIOLA Ajibolorunsoro lives in Ejigbo. She works in Victoria Island. Everyday, she wakes up at 4am to prepare for office. On this day, she over slept and woke up at five am. By the time, she had finished preparations for office and boarding a...

DELE Jones is a young Nigerian with a lofty ambition. He carries this ambition on his gentle shoulder. With a rolling, motion-laden footgear called roller skate that is only glided on smooth surface, Dele practices, and sometimes, does some...

ONCE upon a time, all one needed to drive in Lagos metropolis was a moderate experience and, for majority of road users, an expired or fake driver’s licence. That era may have, as well become history, as a new order seems to be evolving.

And...

OUR journey from Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos to OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa was smooth. Our mission in Madiba’s territory was to be part of the MTV Base Africa All Stars with Snoop Lion, D’Banj...

WHO Let the Dogs Out? is a song written and originally recorded by Anslem Douglas (titled Doggie) for the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season of 1998. Watching the slaughtering of two dead cows sent a wrong signal concerning the state of health of...

• Eight months after completion, government yet to make income

EIGHT months after commissioning for use, the Onitsha River Port Complex, which situated east of the River Niger at Onitsha, Anambra State, it is yet to resume operations as...

AFTER years of test running, importation and distribution Nigerian, drug barons have changed their strategy: they now produce locally, illicit hard drugs. And their raw materials are toxic wastes.

This stunning discovery came 25 years after the...

THE icon of historical studies in Africa, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, former Head of the Department of History, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ibadan, the only African to have served as Chairman of...