“Nigeria’s security outlook is depressing. The unending attacks suggest a failure of intelligence. Government must rethink its strategy now.” — Bola Ahmed Tinubu, 14 April, 2014...
Not long ago, a well-worn phrase began to echo again in Nigeria’s public conversation: “We need more boots on the ground.” It is a phrase that...
Last week, a Federal High Court judge, James Omotosho, sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on seven terrorism-related charges. This...
Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said in his press statement today that former INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has been appointed an ambassador by President Bola Ahmed...
It is the raw underbelly of Nigerian politics: a toxic cocktail of ethnic entitlement, economic despair, and insecurity sharpened into a political blade. Between Bola Tinubu...
In 2020, The Atlantic published an explosive story, which claimed that in 2018 Donald Trump told advisors he could not understand why someone would fight and...
After finishing university, I thought everything would move quickly. In my mind, uploading results, compiling names, and seeing them on the NYSC Senate List shouldn’t take...
Since Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom state defected to APC on June 6, the issue of disloyalty of some of his political appointees have dogged...
By Farooq Kperogi A social media contact familiar with Lt. A.M. Yerima reached out to me after my last update to say that the young man...
Nigeria’s online and offline discursive arenas have been suffused with frenetic, impassioned, and intensely heightened dialogic exchanges in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s designation of...