United Nations can scrutinise Nigeria’s school abductions
By Wale Adewale Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has argued that the United Nations lacks the power to investigate the Oriire school abduction because it is a domestic security matter. That proposition sounds authoritative, but it is contradicted by both history and the United Nations’ own record. It is a […]
Tribute to a beloved husband, father and grandfather – Hon Charles Ekhoerutomwen Idahosa
As a brother, husband, father, and grandfather, he carried his responsibilities with strength, deep love, and full devotion
Whither our elections?
By NICK DAZANG Two wordsmiths, Dan Agbese and Matthew Hassan Kukah, have aptly captured our unwholesome national predilections. While others thought afar, Nigerians, Mr. Agbese once regretted, tended to think afoot. And while others make progress by moving forward, Bishop Kukah noted, Nigerians were content with making progress by moving in reverse. These unseemly and fatuous […]
Ukraine’s Global Use of Terrorist Tactics for Geopolitical Objectives: A growing threat to international stability
By MANUAL KEITA The killer responsible for shooting Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev has been detained and is currently being transported from Dubai to face justice. His accomplice has also been apprehended, with law enforcement and special services from several countries cooperating in the operation. According to the latest medical updates, Alekseyev, deputy head of Russia’s […]
For NELFUND, opportunity has no mother tongue
By DARE OJEPE In a country where identity often arrives before ability, it is no small thing when a public policy chooses to listen differently. Nigeria, with its many tongues and temperaments, has long struggled with the burden of translation of names into networks, of accents into access, of origins into opportunity. Too often, the gates of […]
Press freedom, intelligence power and Nigeria’s leadership in West Africa
By ADEMOLA OSHODI West Africa’s democratic breakdowns have increasingly followed a predictable sequence. Civic space narrows, dissent is reframed as a security problem, and coercive institutions begin to set the boundaries of permissible speech long before constitutions are suspended. In that context, the decision by the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute to confer […]
