Femi Ojo's Premise

The President, Mr Mohammed Buhari and his team have done virtually everything they thought they should do on curbing the growing high insecurity in Nigeria and it seems yet all is not well. Initially, the President foot- dragged on retiring the ex- military chiefs and bring in new ones on board to fight the growing state of insecurity in Nigeria. But finally, all thanks to the unconquerable voice of reasons that never allowed Mr. President to breathe and   finally our man at Aso Rock did the needful- showed the old security chiefs the way out!   And of recent, President Buhari not seems to be satisfied with the way banditry activities are growing in Nigeria, pulled a fast one on the ‘oga patapata’ in police uniform, after 2 months extension of the immediate past Inspector General of police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar Adamu and with no significant improvement in his service delivery on internal security, showed Mr. Abubakar the exit door off-guard. For Buhari’s ardent supp...

Picture courtesy of Google The coronavirus pandemic a.k.a COVID 19 is no longer a disease far from Africa but a reality transmitting rapidly within the continent on a daily basis. Sadly, this Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) does not differentiate between the rich, the poor, and sex, race or religion creeds. It is a killer disease that is now part of our realities as global citizens.   Pandemics such as this one have been a recurring episode in human history BUT COVID 19 is arguably the most feared, dangerous and novel of all that I know in our contemporary period that has locked down all people of the world and their governments in their homes and which is killing people every second all around the world.    As the novel coronavirus continues to spread globally especially in African continent, I have keenly watched how the governments of these nations try to halt the spread of this deadly disease. From South Africa, Egypt, Gh...

The Vice President of The Economic Liberation Congress, an organization that seeks to see that majority of Nigerians home and abroad are economically empowered through a secured and safe political environment in Nigeria, Mr.   David Yombo Adewuyi, announced through an online media platform, YouTube.com that his organization is ready to support South Western regional security outfit code-named “Operation Amotekun” with the sum of N3.6m and rally other l ike-minded groups for more support for the security outfit in the six states in the region. Speaking further on Amotekun, he said, his organization was in total support of the new security outfit established by the six state governors of the region because the region produces roughly half of the total revenue in the federations’ account.   Yombo said, “About 50% of the total revenue that goes to the central government is derived from the south western region and over forty thousand Nigerians have been killed by...