Nigeria in a new Middle East, by Suleiman A. Suleiman
It was bemusing to read in the news that Nigeria has joined the Red Sea Alliance, an ostensibly “maritime security” coalition cobbled together by Saudi Arabia, along with 12 other predominantly Muslim countries in tow. The announcement exposes our current approach to foreign policy: episodic, sentimental, and reactive rather than deliberate and strategic. It has […]
The sociology of the “Northern Question” in Nigeria: A fundamental reasoning on some salient issues(4), by Usman Sark
“To a mind capable of reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances”– Edward Gibbon The challenges, threats, risks and dangers that every Nigerian faces or experiences today are not categorised according to their emphatic relationships with the tribe, ethnic group, religious belief, region of origin, state or local government […]
How 2027 can be won and lost, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“Trouble will come, but you do not have to give it a chair to sit on.”- African proverb
Nigeria: 730 days later, by Dakuku Peterside
Two years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the savannah, the creeks, and the sprawling megacities since the last electoral hoopla promised a national rebirth. We now stand midway between ballots, yet conversation in Abuja’s corridors is drifting toward 2027 slogans when democracy must earn […]
Constitution made in a hurry, made in error (2), by Eric Teniola
From last week, continues the argument that the 1999 Constitution was made in hurry because by the gubernatorial elections on February 20, 1999 and the presidential election on February 29, 1999, the new Constitution was not ready; and that by 1999, the 1979 Constitution was still suspended; likewise, the 1988 Constitution prepared by the Constituent […]
NIGERIAN PRESIDENTS AND NNPC MOUSE TRAP
By Dele Sobowale “Mice are mice; that is why mouse traps work.” More than half of the corruption in the Federal Government, FG, would be wiped out; if only the Presidents responded to those reports the way they should. I stopped downloading, reading and analysing the Annual Report of the Auditor General of the Federation, AuGF, when […]
