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Our Reporter In a major bid to tackle the security challenges facing Anambra State, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has unveiled the Anambra Homeland Security Law 2025 and launched a special security operation code-named "Operation Udo Ga-Achi". The Governor, who signed the Homeland Security Law 2025 earlier today (Saturday), stated that the law provides a framework for community/citizens' ownership and participation in sustainable security and social re-engineering. Details of the new development are contained in a press statement issued Saturday by the State's Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor. According to Governor Soludo, "Operation Udo Ga-Achi" is a special intervention force…

By SHEDDY OZOENE Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria's most influential leaders, famously described Nigeria as "a mere geographical expression" in his seminal book Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947). By this, Awolowo highlighted the artificial nature of the Nigerian state, created by colonial Britain in 1914 through the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates. His observation pointed to the lack of a unifying national identity among Nigeria's diverse ethnic and cultural groups, which makes most Nigerians more disposed towards their ethnic groups ahead of the Nigerian nation. Several other Nigerian leaders, through their actions and words, keep echoing this perspective,…