While polytechnics quietly powered industries with skilled manpower, their graduates faced limited career progression, wage disparities and social bias

Testimonies from Ojukwu’s kinsmen, as presented in The Gun Hegemony, depict Ojukwu as an ambitious separatist driven by deep trust deficits

“The pressure is too much, the pressure on someone who has been at the top for so long is a lot, and I think he’s handling it very well”

Analysts have voiced concerns about ISSP’s spread from the Sahel into coastal west African countries like Nigeria

”We cannot keep having people who do not care, people who lack empathy in the mental health space”

“But less than four weeks after the foreign bombs landed, Nigeria has descended into a more complex nightmare.”

In recent months, several northern Nigerian states particularly – Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Sokoto – have embarked on a controversial experiment: Negotiating peace deals with armed bandit groups that have terrorized rural communities for years. These agreements, aimed at halting kidnappings, violent raids, and mass displacement, mark a significant shift from the state’s traditional reliance on military […]

By Musa Ubandawaki, SOKOTO In a reminder of the devastating reach of banditry, Sokoto State has been forced to shut down and relocate some of its most historic schools, abandoning once vibrant learning centres in the grip of terror. Read Also: 60 Years After: Remembering the bloody coup that changed Nigeria forever At the heart of […]

Brigadier Ademulegun asked Major Onwuatuegwu, ”Tim, how did you find yourself in my bedroom and what the devil do you think you are doing?”

“We’re not promising anything miraculous or spectacular … we promise law-abiding citizen freedom from fear and all forms of oppression”

The chapter he opened was on the consequences of failure… A coup never succeeds; if it does, nobody calls it a coup

“We did not hand-over. Ironsi told us that ‘You either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force'”

Godwin Alabi-Isama retired from the military as a Brigadier-General and is the author of the very revealing book, THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORY.  In an interview with Edmund Obilo, the creator and anchor of STATE AFFAIRS, a current affairs interview programme last year, Alabi-Isama made some revelations about Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu like none other has […]

‘Political interest took the shape and pattern of ethnic warfare and struggles in large, diverse and unequal regions in terms of population, resources and the powers’

The Brigadier-General and his pregnant wife were both gunned down.  She was said to have stood in front of her husband, pleading for mercy