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WAR AGAINST INSURGENCY:AN UNFINISHED BUSINESS Tijani Hassan A. Email:.talk2tijanihassan@gmail.com S ince the technical defeat of Boko Haram and the capture of the dreaded Sambisa forest by the Troops of the Military code named “Operation Lafiya Dole” in 2016, the war against insurgency has taken a new dimension in recent months occasioned by the spate of suicide Bomb attacks which we have witnessed within and outside Maiduguri the Borno state Capital. According to the Nigerian Defense Headquarters, the war against Boko Haram is now in its twilight stage as the third most dreaded terror group after ISIS and Al-Qaeda has been dismantled and degraded and as such what we have been seeing lately are cases or opportunity which the sect wants to use to create relevance in the minds of the Nigerians populace. The extent to which the group has been degraded can be seen in their inability to carry out coordinated attacks like the way we use to see in the past, but now result to the tradi...

  The Role of women in leadership Tijani Hassan A. Email:talk2tijanihassan@gmail.com Going with the adage; "behind every successful man, there is a woman", it is indisputable to note that women are a major stakeholder in the Development project of any society. Despite this, having access to leadership position in Nigeria is not easy for millions of women taking part in elective politics as they lacks the support and opportunity to compete with other male politicians. Without gainsaying, women have a significant role to Play in the socio-political and economic leadership of any country like the case of Nigeria. The leadership role played by both Mrs funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and Mrs Margaret Ekpo in the Nigeria pre-independence political struggle of the 1950s are incontrovertible. Mrs Kutti was a strong advocate and campaigner for women's right across the country. Mrs Margaret Ekpo on her part, was the only female member of the seven-man committee set up in 1951 to org...