November 18

• Nigeria: Power Privatisation Will Be a Disaster [analysis]

  Nigeria is handing over the country's strategic power sector to private investors ostensibly to improve service delivery. This is being done despite the glaring and costly failure... Read more »

November 9

• Nigeria: The Need to End Domestic Violence

  Although some states in Nigeria have enacted relevant laws, not much has been done in terms of public enlightenment, enforcement and attitude change. Domestic violence is still... Read more »

• Nigeria: Stand Up for Great Ife at 50 [analysis]

  Obafemi Awolowo University is celebrating 50 years of service to the people of Nigeria through teaching, research and community service. But strangely, the university... Read more »

• Africa: Nigeria Must Demand the Return of Looted Antiques [analysis]

  Nigeria's perplexing 'quiet diplomacy' in the pursuit of precious pieces of art looted by the colonialists over a century ago has not resulted in the return of the artefacts. It is... Read more »

October 26

• Nigeria: Rise of 'Millennium Development' graduates [opinion]

  A recent Unesco report confirms that poor funding, inadequate facilities and outright criminal neglect of education take their toll on quality in one of Africa's richest countries. Read more »

• Nigeria: Breaking the Silence on Modern-Day Slavery [interview]

  The brave young Nigerian woman who survived abuse in the hands of her adoptive parents and later wrote a book about the experience speaks about moving on with her life. Read more »

October 19

• Nigeria: Soldiers Shouldn't Kill Civilians in Boko Haram Crackdown [opinion]

  Nigerian security forces deployed to quell the Boko Haram menace in Maiduguri have denied engaging in extra-judicial killing of unarmed civilians. Local people should expose the... Read more »

• Nigeria: Nigeria - A Powerhouse in Decline [opinion]

  The latest assessment of governance in Nigeria paints a gloomy picture of the African giant. It is not that Nigerians do not know their own problems; they must now step up and stop... Read more »

October 5

• Nigeria: Nigeria - 52 Years After Independence, Education in Shambles [opinion]

  As another day of Nigeria's independence anniversary draws near, it is obvious that all is not well with the country's educational sector. The portrait of independent Nigeria,... Read more »

• Nigeria: The Folly of Breaking up Nigeria to Heal it - It is All Hot Air [opinion]

  Nigeria's 52nd independence anniversary is drowned by hot air over a possible break-up even as questions are being raised about its feasibility. Read more »

July 27

• Africa: The Perambulation Continues in Nigeria's Oil Sector [opinion]

  Despite the rhetoric, the Nigerian government has no intention of reforming its oil industry to benefit the people. Nigeria remains the global poster child for "resource curse." Read more »

• Nigeria: Shell Shrugs Off Bonga Fine

  Citizen-driven democracy, legislative activism and systemic change is the only thing that will hold companies to account. The case of Nigeria proves this. Read more »

July 20

• Africa: On the New AU Boss and Savage Demolitions in Nigeria

  What hopes does the first female AU Commission chairperson raise? The Lagos government has demolished an old community, leaving some 2,500 homeless. And Fahamu's executive director... Read more »

• Nigeria: The Scramble for Nigeria [opinion]

  The disastrous privatisation programme in Nigeria is the epitome of greed, avarice and corruption, benefitting a tiny elite at the expense of everyone else. Read more »

• Nigeria: Loud Sound of Silence - An Ex-Homeboy's Account of life in a Peaceful Nigerian City That is Now Blood-Soaked [opinion]

  While military action may quell the eruption of violence and killing in northern Nigeria, effective action to tackle poverty is needed to rebuild a lasting peace. Read more »

• Nigeria: Looted Benin Artefacts Donated to American Museum [analysis]

  The people of Benin have tried for years to have their precious works of art returned to no avail. Now the artifacts have a new 'owner' in America. Read more »

July 6

• Nigeria: The Bitter Taste of Honey [opinion]

  A deficit of transformational leadership, dwindling economic fortunes and increasing violence have turned the vast plains of Northern Nigeria into a bastion of despair. Read more »

• Nigeria: Nigeria - Government Forcibly Removes 25,000 Families in Port Harcourt [opinion]

  Abonnema Wharf Community demolished by the Rivers State government in flagrant disregard of judicial process. Read more »

June 29

• Nigeria: The Many Faces of Islam [opinion]

  Militant Islam is well known in Nigeria thanks to the atrocities committed by Boko Haram and other radical groups. What is less known, but remains a problem, is the intense... Read more »

June 15

• Nigeria: India and Her Afro-Indians [analysis]

  A glimpse of the African side of India shows people with severe psychotic problems apparently related to their poverty and intense subjection to racist contempt. Read more »

• Nigeria: Congratulations Nigeria - Your War Boat Has Arrived [opinion]

  Nigeria has a war boat, but it raises numerous questions in the minds of the inquisitive. Read more »

• Nigeria: The Next Phase of Boko Haram Terrorism [opinion]

  Boko Haram is completely political. But with the toxic element of religion infused into it, it gives them the leg to ally with international terrorist bodies based on religion, who... Read more »

June 8

• Nigeria: How Do We Make Sense of Our Predicament? [opinion]

  Just two days into the week and Nigeria is facing its third disaster. It started Sunday morning with yet another Boko Haram suicide bomb attack against a church. The numbers killed... Read more »

May 25

• Nigeria: Unitary Labour and the Rest of us - Doctors and the Poor in Lagos State [opinion]

  What the national executive body of the doctors need to know is the need to constructively explore all available options for resolving the conflict in Lagos State. Read more »

May 18

• Nigeria: Reflections On the Lagos State Government's Onslaught On Doctors [opinion]

  A recent crackdown on doctors in Nigeria is symptomatic of a wider state attack on the working class. Read more »