Recent reports of armed attacks on security formations in the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria, and the resultant unfortunate deaths of security personnel, are quite troubling and unsettling. Undoubtedly...
Press Releases
Isa Pantami must go!
President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowed war against terrorism had the rug pulled from under it by the rather absurd defence of Dr Isa Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, by the presidential...
The mindless killing of Greenfield University Students
We are greatly saddened by the news of the recent killing of three students of Greenfield University, Kasarami Village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Marauding bandits had earlier killed a staff...
Pantami’s Volte-face Contrition is no sufficient remedy
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami’s recent volte-face of previously held extremist views in support of global terrorism after his initial denial of harbouring such views, is very...
Danladi Umar is No Longer Fit for Public Office
The viral video of the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Mr Danladi Umar, and his aides, assaulting a security guard, Mr. Clement Sagwak, at Banex Plaza, Abuja requires very little annotation. It...
President Buhari’s Foreign Medical Trip: Symptom of a National Malady
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday 30th March 2021 flew to the United Kingdom, for what Presidential officials have described as a ‘routine medical check-up’. This would be the sixth time the President would travel...
COVID-19 Vaccination: Averting a Disastrous Exercise
On Tuesday March 2nd, Nigeria received its first batch of 3.92million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine shipped via the COVAX facility; a partnership between Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI),...
International Women’s Day 2021
The Need to Advance the Education, Careers, and Leadership Potentials of Women in Nigeria The theme for this year's International Women's Day - Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future In A Covid-19 World, is a...
Bandits siege on Nigeria: Enough of the Empty Rhetoric!
This continued orgy of murderous abductions across Northern Nigeria is appalling. The kidnap of 317 girls in Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State by terrorists on Friday February 26, 2021 came...
Before Anarchy Reigns in Nigeria
The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, notes with deep concern the recent escalation of farmers/herders clashes and related insecurity in Oyo and Ondo States together with the killings that...
International Day of Education: Need for Increased Investment in Education
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) joins the rest of the world in marking the International Day of Education. This year's commemoration, only the third since a United Nations resolution created...
Umalokun Massacre: An Unlawful Murder Among Many Past & Present that Blights the History of Nigerian Police
On December 27, 1983, men of the Nigeria Police Force in Ughelli, then in old Bendel State, shot six Nigerian youths dead in cold blood. The murdered Nigerian youths from different tertiary institutions, namely Kester...