Hannah JohnsonDHQ releases names, photos of soldiers killed in Delta attack

The identities of the Nigerian Army commander, three officers, and 12 soldiers who were killed by attackers in Delta community have been revealed. The Defence Headquarters shared their photos and names on X account on Monday. The fallen soldiers, serving with the 181 Amphibious Battalion, were on a peace-keeping mission to quell community clashes in …

Practical Steps for Effective Implementation of the Oronsaye Report – Agora Policy By Joe Abah

Stephen Oronsaye On 26th February 2024, the Federal Government announced, with great fanfare, that President Bola Tinubu had ordered the implementation of the Oronsaye Panel Report. Although many news outlets reported that the president had ordered “the full implementation of the Oronsaye Report”1, what the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Ms. Hadiza …

Too late for Nigeria by Antony Sguazzin

President Bola Tinubu has set about reforming Nigeria’s economy at breakneck speed. For some multinationals that have suffered more than a decade of economic chaos, the measures have come too late. Procter & Gamble, GSK, Sanofi and Bayer — among the world’s biggest consumer companies — are leaving, handing over the risk of operating in Africa’s most-populous nation to …

The Perfect Mark

How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam. By Mitchell Zuckoff Late one afternoon in June, 2001, John W. Worley sat in a burgundy leather desk chair reading his e-mail. He was fifty-seven and burly, with glasses, a fringe of salt-and-pepper hair, and a bushy gray beard. A decorated Vietnam veteran and an ordained …