Leah Sharibu’s Ordeal, By Dele Agekameh
No matter what happens, Leah Sharibu has already conquered her captors in the eyes of the world, and this should give the Nigerian government the impetus to conquer the hate and division that her captors wish to spread in their campaign of death and destruction. Last Tuesday, Leah Sharibu, the…
A Wake-up Call For the South-West, By Dele Agekameh
For anyone who thinks that the scale of insecurity in this country tips towards the North, there is news for them – we are all in the eye of the storm. The whole country is now engulfed in widespread killings, kidnappings, violent robberies and all manner of evil, and there…
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Zainab’s Case As Eye Opener, By Dele Agekameh
The administration of our airports and seaports has been built around mind-boggling corruption, perpetrated by petty profiteers and major criminal syndicates alike. The bubble of corruption is so thick and resistant to change that any attempt to improve transparency and safety is put through cost-benefit analysis of the corrupt system…
Zamfara: The Gold ‘Armada’, By Dele Agekameh
The gold-inspired violence in Zamfara and the North-West is a multi-layered problem that combines issues of the economy, insecurity, border control, regional hegemony and politics. Any government response must factor in each of these issues for it to be robust and efficient. In the past couple of months, Zamfara State…
NCPC: The Stinking Road To Jerusalem, By Dele Agekameh
Some staff of the NCPC are believed to be in the process of filing a petition to the EFCC which will not only be an embarrassment to the Christian community and the SGF, but likely also to the VP, himself, a pastor. It is imperative that the ES steps aside…
A Season of ‘Banditry’, By Dele Agekameh
Our authorities have displayed a serious lack of foresight in dealing with security challenges, and the lack of local, pro-active and multi-institutional collaborative effort is at the root of the problem. For nearly a decade, the intensity of the Boko Haram insurgency has surged and waned in North-East Nigeria, between…
Again, Xenophobia In South Africa, By Dele Agekameh
Nigeria and other African countries need to explore all avenues available to pressure South Africa into taking responsibility and standing up to the dangerous fire of xenophobia burning within its borders. Fresh attacks on black foreigners have, once more, unearthed the cankerworm of xenophobia in South Africa. In the latest…
The Shame of the Police, By Dele Agekameh
Right now, there is too much speculative reshuffling and reorganisation within the police, and it is not resonating with the poorly trained men at the bottom of the pile, who mostly think about how to profit from the authority their riffles command. In the early morning of Wednesday, March 20,…
Elections In Nigeria, By Dele Agekameh
After the money and the muscling, come the lawyers. Win or lose, the election war chest is incomplete without funds for the likely legal battle afterwards. The legal option can redefine winning and losing in Nigerian elections, as history has shown. After the collation of results in the gubernatorial and…
Supplementing Failure, By Dele Agekameh
This Saturday, one then wonders whether it is real electorate-driven elections that are coming, or we are expecting supplementary disruptions and failure afterall. In an electoral system that seems to be sliding back into much darker times, there is no telling what to expect. The conduct of supplementary elections into…
