With the passing of Professor Adamu Baikie on Friday, 12 December 2025, Nigeria and indeed Africa lost a great intellectual, institution builder, and architect of modern education. He was someone who ...
There is a popular Nigerian lingo cum proverb that has graduated from street humour to philosophical thesis: “If dem explain Nigeria give you and you understand am, you fit craze.” It sounds...
. As NDLEA intercepts Italy-bound opioids, nabs businessman, Beninoise lady, others in nationwide raids Twenty months after a cocaine trafficking cartel led by a couple: Bolanle Lookman Dauda and Olay...
By Chukwuemeka B. Eze and Jeggan Gray Johnson West Africa stands today at a troubling crossroads where democratic aspirations collide with deep geopolitical tensions, failing institutions, and a new w...
On December 15, 2025, Professor Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan celebrated his seventy-first year on the Planet Earth. No doubt about it, Afoláyan has led a life of profound meaning, a life defined by discip...
Senator Abdul Ningi of Bauchi Central depicted a sorrowful figure last week on the floor of the upper chamber when he complained bitterly that his orderly had been withdrawn on the order of President ...
Some national tragedies do not happen all at once. They arrive quietly, until people start living in fear. Travelling becomes a risk. Farming feels uncertain. Going to school turns into an act of hope...
Last time, we parted with the following words: ‘So, with all this before us, where do we turn? How do we reverse the “curses”, catch our breath, and return to who we ought to be – security-wise –...
“Kowa ya dade yaga dadau”. – Hausa (Whoever lives long, will see wonders). There is a peculiar intimacy to theft in Nigeria. It is rarely loud. It seldom announces itself with v...
Nineteen Northern State Governors alongside their traditional rulers met in Kaduna last week Monday to rub minds and possibly work out practical solutions to the insecurity crisis that has not only en...
