THOUSANDS of Fulani herdsmen are leaving Nigeria with their livestock and settling into neighbouring countries like Chad and Cameron as a result of the growing opposition to open grazing according to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban).
In May this year, the Southern Governors Forum met in the...
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Mali is currently being ruled by a military junta
Chad is currently being ruled by a military junta
Guinea has now followed suit with the army in power
Unless we want Western nations coming into our backyard to tell us how to live, Nigeria needs to get her act together fast
I sometimes wonder if Nigeria has...
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On May 14 1897, Great Britain signed a treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia, creating bilateral relationships between Ethiopia and British Somaliland. It guaranteed the rights of the citizens of both territories and opened the door to trade between them
Although not exactly an agreement between equals like say...
NIGERIA'S security problems in the northeast of the country could get considerably worse over the coming weeks as Chadian rebels who recently killed President Idris Deby have begun an advance on the capital N’djamena.
Last Monday, President Deby was killed in a clash with the rebels when his visited his troops on the...
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(1) As the former Chadian president was Boko Haram’s most formidable adversary, the vacuum needs to be filled with an intensified military presence in the Lake Chad Basin or we will end up with another Afghanistan on our hands. I await a Blitzkreig operation over the next few weeks
(2) I think it is time to expand the...
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Register and licence local vigilante groups
Establish 20 battalions in strategic towns in the north east
Commence building of a fence along the borders with Chad/Cameroon/Niger
Offer free uniforms and school meals to all youths in the area to encourage education
Get the Lake Chad Basin Authority to create 30,000...
NIGERIA has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) which offers an amnesty to very poor countries.
As a result of the economic fallout of coronavirus pandemic, many poor countries have been unable to...
NIGERIAN health workers intending on travelling to the UK in search of work will find it a bit more difficult to relocate after the government introduced a new set of stringent rules under an updated Code of Practice (CoP) that will affect 47 developing nations.
Under the new regime, the UK is effectively suspending the...
SUPER Eagles centreback William Troost-Ekong has donated food items and materials for the motherless babies home in Uyo as part of his contribution towards ameliorating the effects of the coronavirus economic crisis in Nigeria.
Ekong, 27, who plays his club football with English Championship side Watford, is a native of Uyo,...
Ayo Akinfe
Register and licence local vigilante groups
Establish 20 Nigerian Army battalions in strategic towns across the north east
Commence building of a fence along the borders with Chad/Cameroon/Niger
Offer free uniforms and school meals to all youths in the area to encourage education
Get the Lake Chad Basin...
