The inauguration of the Presidential Working Group on State Policing on 7 July 2026 should have been a defining moment in Nigeria’s search for a workable security architecture. Instead, the composition of the Presidential Working Group on State Policing has shifted attention from the promise of reform to the politics of representation; to who is missing at the table and the deficit of representation. According to the published list, the 13-member body comprises nine members from the South-West, two from the South-East, and one each from Plateau and Nasarawa states…
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LIBERTY TV EDITORIAL
There is palpable outrage and condemnation currently in Nigeria and around the world arising from the pitiable pictures of drained, emaciated, hungry and traumatized children dragging their feet in a courtroom after being arraigned and charged for alleged treason. The dehumanizing scenario was, to say the least, an outrage, a sickening reflection of a nation with a dying conscience. A nation gradually losing its humanity. Those minors and juveniles, 32 of them, are aged between 14 and 17. What were they doing in the dock charged for treason? Treason, for…
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