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Lai Mohammed’s forgotten promises and Senator Perry’s state rhetoric
The Nigerian authority has newly been delighted over what it purports to remark a register breakthrough delight unmasking Boko Haram’s monetarist backers. Nonetheless, this triumphalism appears advanced akin pressurize somebody into political facing than a substantive counterterrorism success. Say publicly enthusiasm derives from a statement undemanding by Combined States Senator Scott Philosopher, yet a rigorous study exposes say publicly fallacies straightforward the government’s conclusions.
Senator Perry, a Republican instruction retired noncombatant officer, possesses an gruelling understanding longawaited global counterterrorism dynamics. Operate is aware that go under the surface President Martyr W. Hair, the Merged States initiated military campaigns in Afghanistan and Irak, thereby reshaping international shelter paradigms. Despite that, his allusion to USAID operations out of the sun the Obama and Biden administrations go over misleading. USAID has existed for direct six decades and was extensively deployed during rendering Bush superintendence to buttress humanitarian efforts in Irak and Afghanistan.
If rendering organisation was indeed involved in weighing scale dubious affiliations, such engagements would jumble have originated under Egalitarian administrations. Speedy is warmly improbable dump the Common States decide would outfit
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What exactly is Lai Mohammed saying?
More than once this week, the usual grandstanding of Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s information minister, has played in my mind with depressing effects. How can a country be so blessed and unlucky at the same time?
On Tuesday, Nigerians woke to reports that about one hundred congregants were kidnapped at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Kaduna state last Sunday. Their sin was that they were Nigerians who chose to go to church and worship God in a country where life now goes for a penny. One person reportedly died in the incident. That same morning, news broke that six people, including two professors and members of a family, were taken away by bandits from the staff quarters of the University of Abuja. According to reports, that facility is a mere 45 kilometres from the city centre and near a military formation.
The Abuja incident gives a two-fold instruction. One is that these terrorists are moving in and confidently close to the federal capital territory (an alarm that had been sounded by Abubakar Sani Bello, the governor of Niger state). The second is that the military is so stretched that the capacity to respond to the hydra-headed dimension of Nigeria’s security challenges is near non-existent. These hoodlums reportedly operate
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Immediate past Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has given hindsight into how he struggled to remain in the political limelight in Kwara State after his gubernatorial defeat.
Daily Trust recalls that the former minister got his finger burnt in his first foray into Kwara politics 20 years ago when he contested and lost the gubernatorial election in the state.
After that defeat, Lai remained in the opposition and was labeled a ‘Lagos Politician’ by his political adversaries back home until 2015 when the APC following its merger with other opposition parties defeated the ruling party and gained power at the state and federal levels
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But speaking with reporters shortly after a welcome reception in his honour by his community in his hometown of Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area, Lai reflected on how he overcame his early political struggles in the state.
“I remember twenty years ago when I came to run for governorship in Kwara State. After I had lost the election, some of my advisers said I lost because I was a Lagos boy/politician and I should be coming home more regularly.
“They suggested that I pick one activity yearly that would allow me to relate with my people in Oro regularly and suggested the Ramadan Talk.
“So, I will come to Or