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Mr. President, This Is Not Leadership — It Is Abdication!

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I write to you with a heavy heart, compelled by conscience, outraged by injustice, and deeply disturbed by...

Tiger Base: Advisory To Families, Legal Representatives of Detainees: Act Before It Is Too Late 

 - RULAAC Advisory SeriesRecent reports of torture, illegal detention, and suspicious deaths linked to operatives of Tiger Base in Owerri are deeply disturbing. In...

Still On The Mysteries Of Tiger Base: When Innocence Is No Defence

 By RULAACHow many still remember the perplexing case of Mr. Thaddeus Ikechukwu Ojokoh — the tailor from Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, who was abducted...

Tiger Base: A Hotbed of Abuses That Demands Urgent Action

 By Okechukwu NwangumaOn January 13, 2023, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) issued yet another public call to the Inspector-General of...

Remembering May 30, 1967: 58th Anniversary Of The Republic Of Biafra

 By Okechukwu NwangumaToday, May 30, 2025, marks 58 years since Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Military Governor of the Eastern Region, declared the birth...

A Researcher’s Diary: The Bloodbath

 By Damian UGWUThe morning sun filtered through the windows of my office on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja, casting familiar shadows across stacks of case...

Tiger Base and the Tragedy of Nigeria’s Flawed Democracy

  By Okechukwu NwangumaJune 13, 2025The celebration of “Democracy Day” just yesterday rang hollow for many of us who live with the daily trauma of...

June 12: Remembering The Struggle, Deaths, Question Of Democracy In Nigeria

 By Okechukwu NwangumaEach year, as Nigeria marks June 12 — Democracy Day, citizens are invited to reflect on the hard-fought battles that brought us...

School Principal Who Demands Bribe To Release Student’s Testimonial, Is Failing In His Democratic Duty

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma Democracy, we say, is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. But do we, the people, truly grasp...

Tiger Base Must Fall: The Murder of Japheth Njoku and Nigeria’s Warped Security Apparatus

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma In the heart of Owerri, behind the iron gates of what is infamously known as Tiger Base, justice dies daily. It died...

Nigeria’s Descent Into Legal Barbarism: Who Will De-Escalate Our Spiralling Callousness?

 By Okechukwu NwangumaI'm provoked to pen down this piece after reading a Facebook post on June 9, 2025, by Igbonekwu Ogazimorah, where he exposed...

State of Emergency, Democratic Governance, and Imperative of Constitutionalism in Nigeria

 By Okechukwu NwangumaAs President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan invoked the constitutional provision to declare a state of emergency in...

How Military Involvement In Civil Security In Nigeria Is Alarming

 By Okechukwu Nwanguma Since 2020, the Nigerian military has been deployed in internal security operations across all 36 states and the FCT.This level of military...

Eight Years Without Trial — A Damning Indictment of Nigeria’s Criminal Justice System

  By Okechukwu Nwanguma, RULAACMy attention was recently drawn to a heartbreaking report by Crime Facts about Mr. John Gift Tobia — a man who...

When a Rogue Officer Dies: The Case of CSP Ekene Nwosu and the Rotten Core of Police Impunity in Nigeria

 The recent death of CSP Ekene Nwosu, former Officer-in-Charge of the Anti-Robbery Squad in Akwa Ibom State, has sparked both grief and grim celebration.For...

The Lawrence Anini Saga

 By Douglas Ogbankwa Esq(Excerpts from the Book "Tales from Benin ", By Douglas Ogbankwa Esq.) Lawrence Nomayagbon Anini, then popularly called "The Law and "Ovbigbo",...

#Tiger Base Police: One Of The Best Defence Attorneys In Nigeria Speaks

 Earlier this year, a state high court sitting in Owerri presided over by His Lordship Hon. Justice ACP Nosiri awarded damages of N2m in...

Police Operatives Defy Edo Compol Directive On Vehicle Marking

 As a response arising from the complaints from members of the public and protests from the civil society over unprofessional conduct by police officers...

For The Nigerian Policeman: Thinking Beyond The Killing Of The WAEC Candidate In Ibadan

 By Leftist Osazee Edigin The social media space has been filled with the story and videos of a WAEC candidate who was shot by a...

Police Reform Goes Beyond #EndSARS 

By Okechukwu NwangumaThe October 2020 EndSARS campaign in Nigeria highlighted the critical need for comprehensive police reform in Nigeria. However, as I said then,...

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