Tag: Security

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has berated the Federal Government over the attack of the residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, and over the approach used to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Soyinka disclosed this on Monday during an interview on BBC Pidgin, noting that the government should apologise to Igboho for the criminal attack of his residence rather than declare him wanted, Punch reports. According to the renowned writer, Igboho’s activism for the downtrodden in the South-West was not wrong in the absence of government intervention. He said, “My advice to the government is that they should stop pursuing this person as a criminal because you have begun by acting in a criminal fas...

I know he is an academic, a Professor and a former Rector of Ramat Polytechnic, Borno State. He was also Commissioner for Reconstruction under the immediate past Governor Kashim Shettima. But where did this man called Babagana Umara Zulum emerge from? How come he is doing unusual, uncommon things, and being very modest about it? Do they still make them like this? President Muhammadu Buhari was in Maiduguri, Borno State, a fortnight ago to commission some (just some) projects already completed by the Zulum administration. It was like streams in a desert, a breath of fresh air in a milieu once overtaken by death and destruction, caused by the Boko Haram insurgency. The snake is badly scorched, but yet to be decapitated. Soon, and very soon. With the state in which he inherited Borno St...