Welcome to Nigeria: Where Premium Security is a Myth and Survival is a Sport by Lawson Akhigbe

Whether you are in your living room, a classroom, a place of worship, or just trying to navigate a highway without praying for divine intervention, lives are being lost to blood-thirsty bandits. Thomas Hobbes once described life in the state of nature as "short and brutish." If he were alive today, he’d probably look at Nigeria and say, "See? I told you so."

The Nigerian Police Force: A Colonial Machine That Never Changed by Lawson Akhigbe

To understand the modern Nigerian Police Force, one must first understand its origins. The uncomfortable truth is that the institution was never created to protect ordinary Nigerians. It was established to protect the interests of those who ruled Nigeria, first the British colonial administration and later the Nigerian political elite that inherited the colonial state.

Osinbajo panel to Buhari: Sack Babachir, Oke by Unini Chioma The Daily Trust

Babachir Lawal,Other top government officials to be investigatedThe presidential panel that investigated the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, has recommended that the duo be replaced.Our reporter on Sunday learnt at the weekend that the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo-led committee …