IN 2016 while heading to Ikorodu, my local government of origin, on a critical assignment for Sunday Tribune, a police officer threatened to kill me and
Tribute To An Exemplary Comrade And Leader By Denja Yaqub
For us, younger people, we still learn from the humility and strong commitment of a comrade who have been deeply involved and still courageously and undauntingly leading us in the struggle, even at 80 when so many others had faltered.
Professor Omotoye Olorode remain one of the heroes of my generation and even those before and after mine. He stands tall in all our struggles.
by Denja Yaqub
May 02, 2021
During the years when defiant academics held sway in tertiary schools in Nigeria, there were very many ‘’hot heads’’ even a child in secondary school destined for critical learning had already been used to reading about in newspapers and possibly watched on television. There were very few newspapers and television stations then, most of them state owned.
Nyiam
The most senior officer in the 1990 Major Gideon Orkah military coup, Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to deploy necessary political will to rejig the nation’s military formation and strategy, otherwise the appointment of new security chiefs will not yield expected results.
Nyiam, who spoke on the backdrop of the appointment of new security chiefs by President Buhari after pressure on him to drop the former service chiefs said: “Lack of a combined or unified command or joint command under the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), or better put, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the cause of the Armed Forces Chiefs’ rivalry and duplication of their war efforts and consequent National Security failures and unnecessary waste of public funds, which were major bane to effectiveness of the immediate past chiefs.”