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In The Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,...

Frantz Fanon The Conference Communique drew attention to the importance of maintaining commitment to Fanon’s injunction to remain focused on...

On 26 November, a military regime led by General Horta Inta-A deposed the elected government of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo....

One of the mega schools built by Governor Zulum in Maiduguri The truth is that these governors do not appear...

No one should be surprised at the level of controversy that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambassadorial list of 35 nominees,...

More boots on the ground may quieten violence in the short term. But the peace Nigerians long for will only...

For the first time in a long while, I saw fear in the eyes of federal legislators last week after...

Far more lasting, though, is all that has to be done to remove the motive for citizens joining or tolerating...

A presidential directive cannot fix this political economy of policing in Nigeria. That requires imaginative and committed commitment of time...

After serving for 20 years, did your leadership truly conspire against you? That was the question I posed to this...

Today’s Gen Z world may not know of “Eddie Kwansa”. It is a famous folk song Owerri, Imo State, donated to the rest of Nigeria. Released...

Nigeria is on my mind again—not as a headline, not as a statistic, not as an argument on television, but...

There is no hiding place from God. God sent a message to Israel through Moses: “Let them make me a...

The military coup on Wednesday, 26 November that swept away President Umaro Sissoco Embaló did not come as a surprise....

Umunne m, I write to you today not in anger, but with a mind sharpened against self-deception. This is neither...

In The Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds,...

A trend analysis of where Arewa is headed in the next 25 years - 2050 - will reveal a clear...

Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. US complicity in Libya and its lukewarmness about support for Nigeria under President Barack Obama...

The world was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms...

President Tinubu was quick to say that all the 38 kidnapped Christ Apostolic Church members of Eruku have now been...

Evidently, competence-based governance and credible enforcement are mutually reinforcing categories. The virtual loop that their interplay creates has competent institutions...

...I found myself at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, standing in line for immigration clearance. The airport was crowded, and I...

It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the...

Alexander Hamilton may have called the judiciary “the least dangerous” branch, having “neither force nor will but merely judgment”, but...

Famous Ogbomoso, Oyo State-born bard, Ogundare Fọyanmu, had some words for evil spins and spinners. Religionists call these spinners “workers of iniquity”. They are...