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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 […]
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Nigeria’s kind of distress

THE Holy Bible declares that no man shall prevail by force. God who made the heavens and this earth intended that man should rely on Him to achieve success in all endeavours. But man changed his ways so much that God himself concluded that the heart of man is desperately wicked.

This PDP should perish or reform

THERE is no other way to put it; the PDP as it appears today is not useful to Nigeria and to students of politics anywhere in the world.

The importance of partnerships in humanitarian response

Crises of all sorts, from conflicts to natural disasters to health emergencies, are happening at unprecedented rates around the world – so much so, that the United Nations is convening the first ever World Humanitarian Summit this month. There is increasing recognition that the sheer scale of the humanitarian challenges facing the world today means […]

My journey back to the future of African farming by Olusegun Obasanjo

Every year, thousands of young Africans join an exodus from their families’ small, often struggling farms in the countryside. Their dream – sometimes fulfilled, often not – is to find a more rewarding and stimulating life in the continent´s rapidly growing cities. Few return, but even fewer ever completely sever their ties.

Herdsmen attacks and echoes of Enugu killings

I HAVE followed with keen interest the development in the country over the unfortunate attacks on communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The incessant attacks which have ravaged some communities in the country have posed a serious security threat to our national unity and peaceful co-existence.

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