Nigeria is once again standing at a constitutional crossroads. The growing insecurity across the federation, from banditry in the North-West, secessionist violence in the South-East, kidnapping in the South-South, farmer-herder clashes in the Middle Belt, and urban criminality in Lagos and Abuja, has pushed the debate over state police from intellectual seminars into the centre of national survival.
THE COUP THAT ATE ITSELF By Lawson Akhigbe
How Major Gideon Orkar's abortive putsch of 1990 handed Sani Abacha the power base that would ultimately devour IBB's grand design for permanent rule and why no dictator should ever be grateful to his own saviour.

