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Insecurity in Nigeria has taken a definite media dimension. This is not unusual. It is always part of the communication strategy of terrorists or purveyors of violence. They know that modern wars are about

International Observers may have stolen the thunder from Donald Trump’s protests over the conduct of last week’s presidential polls in the country. Although a number of developments have occurred since

It will be another Nigeria in conversation Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 when radical nationalists, patriots, family, friends, colleagues and sundry activists gather to pay homage to the late Dr. Yima

50 civil society organisations are challenging the Kano Police Command over an obvious hot pursuit the command has mounted to get at a Kaduna based Barrister for yet to be declared infraction. The civil

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Nigeria is, today, a perfect example of the Risk Society. The Risk Society is not a theory of Nigerian politics but its main argument applies very well to Nigeria. Nigeria had no experience of a terrorist

Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir’s congressional prayers in Jos today has provoked an angry reaction in this piece by Comrade Muhammed Ishaq, PhD in Mathematics from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and a

It is 2020 International Women’s Day and all manner of actors are identifying and posing their own puzzle about ‘The Women Question’. It is unlikely that any other actor will beat Gallup Global Analytics

By Onyeisi Chiemeke Lagos lawyer and activist, Barrister Chiemeke Onyeisi, retouches an old article to unpack a rising wave of heartless domestic violence, particularly of the variant in this headline.

<br/ The author By Y. Z Y’a’u* The 14th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which was held in Berlin, Germany from 25 to 29 November 2019, had the contestable theme of “One World. One Net. One Vision”.

Whether the United States is a declining power has been a subject of a long debate since the mid 1980s. It could be said that the intervention of the late Prof Susan Strange in that debate is part of her

Tolulope Arotile is dead and gone to heaven, if the testimonial on her purity by her anguished father who appeared on Channels Television in the wake of her demise is anything to go by. Intervention has

When Intervention flashed back to Nelson Mandela's handling of questions at a New York outing in 2013, the assumption was that he was the ultimate. Now, there is something equally hot from Angelique Kidjo,

Tuesday 27 August marked the 40th anniversary of the death of our father, Almamy Momoh Bangura. He died on 27 August 1979, two weeks before I took up a one year lectureship appointment at Dalhousie University

The Nigeria Police can barely contain institutional anger against the Nigerian Army for the shooting of three of its crack undercover operatives Wednesday in Taraba State in Northeast of Nigeria. It is

It is not clear what might have happened that, from nowhere, someone must have taken the time to assemble pictures of the leading Nigerian elite whose children are studying outside the country and unleash

The thick fog of war and disintegration of Nigeria came apart today from verbal missiles fired on its conscious and unconscious promoters by outspoken John Cardinal Onaiyekan, outgoing Catholic Archbishop

It is not clear if she was correctly understood during her life time but she was in a class of her own. She had physical beauty, class, education and what someone calls natural allergy to perceived

In the days when Nigerian campuses were brimming with endless succession of intellectual clarification, scholars around Bayero University, Kano, (BUK) spent a lot of time debating whether there is “the

In his May 7th, 2019 lecture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State reiterated his conviction that “The concern of Benue people is not just with the herdsmen militia,