By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Editor
General Ishola Williams retired as Commander of Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), the think-tank of the Nigerian Army. Before then, he was the Chief of Training, Operation and Plans (CTOP) at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ). Since Williams retired from the military, he has been active in the anti-corruption sector, assuming, in the process, the headship of the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International, TI, Nigeria.
In this interview, the former TRADOC Commander speaks on the Service Chiefs who lost their jobs last week and Nigeria’s worst rating on Corruption Perception Index since 2015. The Service Chiefs are General Abayomi Olonisakin (CDS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (COAS), Navy chief Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas and Air chief Sadiq Abubakar. They were appointed in 2015. They were replaced by Major Gen. Leo Irabor (CDS), Major Gen. J. Attahiru (COAS), Rear Admiral AZ Gambo (Navy chief) and AVM IO Amao (Air chief)..
In whose interest is it to destroy South Africaâs intelligence capacity?
By Opinion
BB Senokoane
After watching the Zondo Commission on the issues relating to the State Security Agency, I came to a wake-up call that we do not have state or national security, we are a vulnerable nation.
I am not here to justify the possible abuse and abuse of state agencies and resources, but rather I am moving from a view that state security and state secrets and must be protected by all cost and any means necessary. I want to qualify my statement by saying, if and when there is or might have been an abuse of State Security Agency, this must be made a private matter and in there should be a private tribunal or private courts to handle such matters.
intervention, we didn t do anything. ukrainians that protested against their government. we didn t do that. it was poout than intervened in crimea, we didn t do this. and the third thing i would say, good relations is not should never be the goal of your foreign policy. then what? so you have a nice tea in the kremlin. your ratings go up in russia, how is that ghood for the american people or national security? instead what i hope the president-elect lo l do and his team as i they settle into the job is toe fine what ur national security objectives and should be and our economic objectives ab and then use the means of getting along with poouten to achieve those. but right now i think he s got exactly backwards. the fact that putin isn t allowing you in russia, what should you cannot go there. you cannot gate visa i want him to lift the sanks so i can go back. what should the trump administration learn? what should they take away from the fact that putin went out of his way
president obama has called the ugandan president and the fbi is assisting in the investigation of three deadly bombings that rocked the african country s capital city yesterday. at least 74 people are confirmed dead. more than 70 are wounded in the attacks which targeted two locations where crowds were simply watching the world cup final. this was the scene at one restaurant moments before it was hit. among the fatalities an american identified as nate henn. a week of national mourning begins in uganda tomorrow. this is an awful story. let s dig a little deeper. the somali islamist movement known as al shabab which has ties to al qaeda is claiming responsibility for the blast. it calls the violence retribution for ugandan troops in somalia assisting in the peacekeeping effort there. to get more on these deadly attacks joining us our national security contributor fran townsend, the homeland security adviser to president bush. she worked with the justice department during the clinton