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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 3 May 2021 A former President of the Senate, Pius Anyim, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate the agitations across Nigeria especially by aggrieved minorities. Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in an open letter to Buhari dated May 3, 2021, and titled ‘Re: The State of Insecurity in the Nation: My Suggestion,’ “The perilous threats to our national sovereignty at the time you took over the reins of power in 2015 were the Boko Haram insurgency in the...

Share Former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a commission of enquiry to aggregate the expectations of various segments of the country as a prelude to finding lasting solutions to the general insecurity in the country. In an open letter to the president, the former Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) said the commission will propose immediate, short and long-term solutions and develop a roadmap towards addressing them. “Such roadmap used as a national reference document would guide further interactions and process for implementati...

IPC raises alarm over growing violence in South Eastern states On Kindly Share This Story: The Ikwerre Peoples Congress (IPC) has raised the alarm over what it described as “the spate of violence that is currently being perpetrated in parts of Old Eastern Nigeria”. The group in a press statement signed by its convened, Livingstone Wechie, noted that the developments have resulted in the armed and violent attacks on security formations in some of the Eastern States “and this is very unacceptable”. In part, the statement reads thus; “We have been monitoring the Ikwerre is one of the ...

To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, landmarks would include October 1, 1960, (the day Nigeria gained independence from Britain), January 15, 1966, (when the first of what would become a tradition of military coups occurred), July 6, 1967, (the official start of the 30-month Nigeria-Biafra war) and January 15, 1970, (the official end of the civil war). Advertisement To these dates, I will add January 1, 1914...

A group, the Ogoni Justice Foundation for Human Rights Development has charged the Federal Government to implement the 1997 United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and other White Paper reports on Ogoniland and the country. Specifically, it cited the 2001 Ogomudia Report, 2003 White Paper Report of the Presidential Panel on Security, 2003 Report on First International Conference on Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta and United Nations Development Programme’s (UNEP) report. Others are, the 2004 Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan, 2005 National Political Reform Co...