AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Report filtering in is on the clash, today, between protesting members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN and the Nigerian Police Force in the federal capital territory, Abuja. For long, since the last five years, the members of the IMN, who are faithful of the Shiite leader, Ibrahim El-zakzaky, have consistently being staging loyalty protest and demanding the release of their leader, who has continued to be in detention even after been granted bail by courts of competent jurisdiction. Mr El-zakzaky have suffered incarceration, together with his wife, since 2015 when he was arrested by the Nigerian government for the inciting activities of his followers during one of their Qudd procession. The matter was taken to a federal high court, where the Islamic leader sought for and was obliged a bail. However, for whatever reason, and stoutly in defiance of court order, the federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to actuate this bail order. Repeatedly, the Shii...

It's apt and timely too, just as always it has been, the letter by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, which for whatever reason of his he decided to make open. Obasanjo, as usual, decided to pen to president Muhammad Buhari an open letter, which expresses his disaffection and which content we've seen grossly reflected the fears and concern of many. He has done that earlier three months before and even further before. It's not his first open letter to President Buhari and not indeed his first to a sitting president. But beyond the reason behind the open letter or the recurrence which the same has taken, I would like to be bothered here basically on three issues, which are my make out from the contents and concerns of the recent treatise. Out of the whole lots of issues and recommendations the former leader raised, my imminent focus would be on the jaggedness of the state of the nation, the fact that the nation is currently at a precipise he raised and ultimately on o...

The killing of the first daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Ms Funke Olakurin, Friday, brings to the fore the issue of insecurity that continuously has come up our national discourse. Often, the news waves are inundated with stories of insecurity. If not terror attack, or kidnapping, then it's banditry. And each as they come, is riddled with miff of apprehension. Apprehension. Daily as it comes, speaks much further and deeper of something more critical: which is that the government of the day seems overwhelmed, if not jolted, by the sizzling trend. Daily, criminality, adorned in different garbs, continue to soar, and the effort that's committed seems to be bamboozled by the force of the latter. Just as we cannot continue to rue as this thread of insecurity rises, but must stand up to be counted in the defence process, however it must be told to the government that we expect it to do more than it's doing to ensure the guarantee of the cheapest form of security the citiz...