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SaharaReporters had reported that the female soldier was ordered to be detained by Captain MM Abdulahi, Kwara NYSC Camp Commandant, at a military detention facility in Ilorin, the state capital, pending further investigations. ....
By Adetola Odusote The insecurity in Northern Nigeria today is not accidental. It was a deliberate social decadence systemically incubated over the time and became a way of life for the society. The political leadership, the oligarchy and the proletariats accept the talakawa and almajiri’s poverty concept as God’s will. This has been the way of life of the North. No nation in the world neglects its youth and expect to be at peace. The Almajiri system being practiced in the entire Northern enclave was a nuclear bomb waiting to explode and is now exploding. I predicted the present insecurity in the North 25 years ago when I was doing my national youth service (NYSC) in Borno State. I have traversed the North EAST, NORTH WEST, NORTH CENTRAL, and have witnessed the Almajiri phenomenon. My personal encounter with them remains scary till today. I remember telling people around me and even wrote an article about it in a national newspaper in 1998, warning that if the fede ....
Advertisement “Go there go do registration”, said the security man at the gate after frisking through my Ghana Must Go Bag. He had checked my bag very thoroughly, putting his hands in every corner, sniffing every angle like a police dog, scattering all my neatly folded clothes, including my boxers and flipping through them one by one. He even searched the pockets of the undies. I wondered what he was looking for, I wondered if I looked like a smoker, whether he was looking for sticks of cigarette or wraps of marijuana or some pints of snuff. Miss Cozy, the young lady whom I had helped and who I was eyeing was standing behind me and I wondered if the security man would ransack her bag and flip through her pants the same way he was flipping through my boxers like the pages of the newspaper. ....