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El-Rufai’s Challenge on Banditry: A Response

 By Okechukwu NwangumaToday, Facebook brought up some memories from my past posts. One of the memories was a post I made exactly 4 years...

#Politicisation of Security and the Assault on Electoral Integrity in Nigeria

 By Okechukwu NwangumaOn Monday, June 30, the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room launched the Credibility Threshold for the 2027 general election.Among the many insights...

*Commendable, But Not Yet the Norm: A Glimpse of Hope in a Failing Policing System* 

 By Okechukwu NwangumaOn July 1, 2025, I received a distress call about the unlawful arrest of a young man, Chima Nzeadibe, in Okpanku village,...

MEMORANDUM TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE REVIEW OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION

 BY: THE UNDERSIGNED CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS IN NIGERIA DATE: June 26, 2025 SUBJECT: POSITION ON THE PROPOSAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE IN NIGERIA Introduction The...

The “Angels” In The Nigeria Police Have Brought Yet Another Good News

In a country where encounters with the police often spark anxiety instead of assurance, it’s easy to adopt a hardened belief: Can anything good...

Constitution Review: Public Hearing or Another Wasteful Ritual? 

 On June 22, 2025, the Office of the Deputy Senate President issued a press release announcing a 2-day Zonal Public Hearing on the Review...

When a Nation Betrays Its Protectors — The Shameful Welfare of Nigerian Police Officers

By Okechukwu NwangumaIn the same Nigeria where lawmakers — some of whom are barely literate, politically irrelevant to the masses, and morally bankrupt —...

Nigeria’s Disregard for ECOWAS Court Undermines Regional Rule of Law

- By Okechukwu NwangumaAt the Sixty-Seventh Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, one issue that lingered just beneath...

Insecurity: Nigeria Will Not Bow To Terror, We’ll Not Be Silenced By Fear, Seethes IGP Kayode Egbetokun

 As you will all recall, on June 13th 2025, between the hours of 23:30-02:00hrs, armed militias invaded Yelwata Community in Guma Local Government Area...

When Greed Walks Free and Duty Goes Unpaid — The Case for Police Pension Justice

By Okechukwu NwangumaIt is a tale of two Nigerias: one where a former senior official at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) can embezzle...

Military Must Rely on Intelligence, Not Intimidation in Ikyaior

 By Peter AchiboThe continuous harassment and brutality by military personnel against the Tiv people of Ikyaior in Wukari Local Government Area (LGA) are unethical,...

When the State Fails, Communities Must Defend Themselves 

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma As communities across Nigeria are continually ravaged by marauding herdsmen and violent non-state actors, the painful reality is becoming impossible to ignore:...

Parade of Shame: The Clergy Governor, an Incompetent President, and the Rain-Soaked Children of Benue

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma There are moments in a nation’s journey when a single image captures the depth of its collective moral decay. The sight of innocent...

A Journalist’s Duty is to the Truth, Not to Power: Setting the Record Straight on Tiger Base

By Okechukwu NwangumaMy attention was recently drawn to a publication on an online platform called Crime World, titled “Encomiums As CSP Ola Revolutionalizes Imo...

El-Rufai Balkanisation Of Southern Kaduna Chiefdoms: Professor Chidi Odinkalu Did Not Lie

 We wish to begin this press briefing by extending our heartfelt congratulations to the Muslim ummah on this year's Eid al-Adha celebrations. We pray...

When a Nation Betrays Its Protectors — The Shameful Welfare of Nigerian Police Officers

By Okechukwu NwangumaIn the same Nigeria where lawmakers — some of whom are barely literate, politically irrelevant to the masses, and morally bankrupt —...

A Commitment to Professionalism in Policing: CP Aboki’s Stand Against Corruption in Imo State

The recent report detailing the arrest of seven police officers in Imo State for extortion and harassment at checkpoints should not be dismissed as...

The Paradox of Police Reform and the Untouchable Rogue Units

By Okechukwu NwangumaI have written, and I stand by it, that the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, CP Aboki Danjuma, is a professional-minded...

Beyond Benue: The Rising Atrocities in the Southeast Demand Equal Urgency 

 By Okechukwu NwangumaWhile public and international attention is rightly focused on the latest gruesome massacre in Benue State — yet another testament to the...

#Benue Massacre: Angry Nigerian Writes President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Criticises Bayo Onanuga’s Statement

 Mr President, I am a very concerned citizen who is compelled to respond to the press statement issued on your behalf by Mr Bayo...

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