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The Special Adviser to the Zamfara State Governor on Media and Communication, Zailani Bappa, argues why amnesty should be given to bandits in this interview with JESUSEGUN ALAGBE
Some
people, including Sheik Ahmad Gumi, have been proposing amnesty for bandits operating in the North. What’s your take on this?
Whoever is following the policies of the Zamfara State government knows that this is what we have stood for and still stand for. When Governor Bello Matawalle assumed office in 2019, the first thing he started in June 2019, just a week after his assumption of office, was to initiate a peace dialogue with the bandits because his belief was that after eight or nine years of the military and police fighting the bandits, the attacks were just increasing. There were occasions that on a single day, you would hear of up to 200 people killed by the bandits. There was no single day between 2018 and early 2019 that you would not
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Nigeria: A Tale of the Madman and the Hoe, By Oluwadele Bolutife
Nigeria has been long at the cliff, and there is no more assurance that the precipice will not give way sooner than later.
While it is lamentable that we are not necessarily represented by our best across board, the leaders who thought they were building bridges by selling their people as cheap commodities now have a chance for soul searching. Is Nigeria actually one; with things tilting in the same direction?
There is no doubt that it has been an interesting time in Nigeria. The instability that we can no longer deny is bringing out all shades of people from their closets, and they are now showing the colours that many of us had known them with for a long time. Many seemingly watertight alliances are giving way to the realities of disappointments, self-interests, and divisions.
Political economy of cows: A call for modern innovative approach
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Mon Feb 22 2021
About five years ago, Ambassador Kayode Garrick brought Nigeria a present from Uruguay in form of some useful lessons on cattle development transformation in the post-modern world. He gave us a food for thought in an article published by The Guardian of April 11, 2016, which – of course because of its significance – Daily Trust reincarnated it three years later on September 17, 2019. The piece is entitled: “A cow should be a cow: Lessons from Uruguay”. Garrick packaged his gift of some modern best practices and economic benefits of a cow that would have been espoused by Nigeria long before now.
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