How Sumner Shagari Sambo Reminded Nigeria That Microphones Can Sometimes Move Mountains

There are moments when journalism merely reports history. There are rarer moments when it quietly rearranges it.
One of those moments may have unfolded on ARISE Television when Sumner Shagari Sambo steered a conversation with former Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche (rtd). It was not a spectacle of raised voices or partisan grandstanding. It was journalism at its most consequential: asking the uncomfortable question that many had grown too accustomed to ignoring.
Why should the men and women entrusted with defending Africa’s largest democracy continue to earn wages that barely defend them from inflation?
General Enenche’s response—that no Nigerian soldier s...