A former Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Staff, General Martin Luther Agwai (rtd), has outlined a comprehensive approach for addressing the pervasive insecurity plaguing Nigeria. In a published interview at the weekend, General Agwai said said that the government can only end insecurity in the country by getting to the root causes. He listed hunger, injustice, absence of dialogue, lack of integrating people together, the issue of being told to your face that you are not entitled to something because you belong either to a different ethnic…
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Agwai, Onaiyekan, Jega others call for National People’s Conference to address Nigeria’s political structure
Some elder statesmen and prominent activists say Nigeria is on autopilot. John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd.), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Dr Nguyan Shaku Feese, Dr Usman Bugaje, Adagbo Onoja, Amb. Fatima Balla, Ambassador Zango Abdu, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Chris Kwaja, Dr Hussaini Abdu, Kemi Okenyodo, Jim Gala, Aisha Muhammed Oyebode and Tsema Yvonne said this in a joint statement They spoke under the auspices of the Nigeria Working Group on Peacebuilding and Governance (NWGPG). They called themselves a group of Nigerian…
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