Nigeria: Police Invite NLC President for Questioning Over Terrorism Financing, Treason, Others

·Warn failure to honour letter will lead to activation of warrant of arrest Read more »

Nigeria: Seadogs Urges FG to Declare Emergency On Kidnapping, As Insecurity Worsens Nationwide

National Association of Seadogs (NAS), also known as Pyrates Confraternity, has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency on kidnapping. Read more »

Nigeria: Hunger Protests Not for Regime Change

For the umpteenth time, can somebody tell the federal government and its agents that the claim that the sponsors of the recent #EndBadGovernance protests nationwide had the… Read more »

Nigeria: Outrage Over Abduction of 20 Medical Students in Benue

*Gov Alia, Pate, NMA, lawmakers kick, IG deploys rescue team Read more »

Nigeria: Diplomatic Aspects of the #endbadgovernance Protests

The #EndBadGovernance Protest is the newest version of the 20 October, 2020 #EndSARS Protest. Both are decentralised social movements with politico-economic and security… Read more »

Nigeria: The #EBG Protest - Picking the Pieces

The #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria Protest (#EBG) should generate a good amount of food for thought, at least for any right thinking government. Of the utmost importance, is the fact… Read more »

Nigeria: A Legacy of Leadership - Remembering Captain Hosa Okunbo

Few individuals have left a legacy as profound and far-reaching as the Late Captain Hosa Okunbo: a man of extraordinary vision, unyielding determination, and boundless generosity. Read more »

Nigeria: Military Destroys Illegal Crude Oil Refining Sites in Rivers, Bayelsa

Troops of Land Components (LC), Joint Task Force (JTF), South South(SS), Operation DELTA SAFE (OPDS) have destroyed illegal crude oil refining sites in Bayelsa and Rivers States. Read more »

Nigeria: Four Killed in Cult Groups Clash in Delta

Four persons were yesterday feared killed at different locations during two rival cult groups clash over alleged debt recovery in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta… Read more »

Nigeria: Chronicling the #endbadgovernance Protest As Nigerians Cry for Change

Given the widespread hunger, economic crisis coupled with alleged mismanagement of scarce resources, Nigerians on August 1, 2024, under the #EndBadGovernance slogan, took to the… Read more »

Nigeria: The Many Faces of a Protest

No one had to be Nostradamus, to see that the #Days of Rage aka #EndBadGovernance (EBG) Protest would turn violent, at least in some parts of Nigeria. And, indeed, in various… Read more »

Nigeria: Protests - What Tinubu Did Not Say

After persistent appeals to shelve the 10-day hunger protest by many stakeholders, the protest went ahead as scheduled but marred with violence as feared by many Nigerians. In an… Read more »

Nigeria: Wages of Zanga Zanga

The biggest casualty of the #EndBadGovernance protests in this country so far have been the lost lives. No one knows the number for sure; some reports said more than 20 while the… Read more »

West Africa: AES and One Year of Anti-French and Ecowas Politics - Tout empire périra

There is currently a cold war between the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES), that is, Alliance of Sahel States (ASS), on the one hand, and the Economic Community of West… Read more »

Nigeria: Report - Boko Haram, Iswap Insurgents Killed 109 in Six Months

A total of 109 persons were killed by Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the first six months of 2024 in the North-east, a new report has revealed. Read more »

Nigeria: Hunger Protest and the Clash of Civilisation

The line between the right to peaceful assembly or protest as indicated in Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution and the resort to violence, rioting or looting under whatever pretext… Read more »

Nigeria: Firestorms From the Streets...

In October 2019, I was in Prague, Czech Republic, at the invitation of 'Forum 2000' to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 'Velvet Revolution' which brought to power then… Read more »

Nigeria: Looming Threat of Violent Extremism in West African States and Need for New Strategy

The persistent threat of violent extremism in West African states, exacerbated by groups such as Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Al-Qaeda, necessitates a reevaluation of current strategies.… Read more »

Nigeria: Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja - Transforming the Nigerian Army Through Leadership, Operational Effectiveness and Sound Administration

When Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja assumed office in June 2023 as the 23rd Chief of Army Staff, COAS, he set out his Command Philosophy "To Transform the Nigerian Army… Read more »

Nigeria: The Planned Nationwide Protest

The people have a fundamental right to protest. But there is a whiff of danger in this Read more »

Nigeria: Stakeholders Canvass Religious Tolerance Among Nigerians for Peace

The need for religious tolerance in Nigeria took the centre stage at the weekend in Benin-City, capital of Edo State, at a grassroots sensitisation programme on survey report on… Read more »

Nigeria: Apologise to Nigerians for Failure to Address Insecurity, Economic Challenges, Northern Can Tells FG

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has asked the federal government to apologise to Nigerians for its… Read more »

Nigeria: Should Lagos Go Through Another Ruin?

In Lagos, today, tensions are high and bursting at the seams. Isn't a protest that is potentially violent another bad idea? Shola Oyeyipo asks. Read more »

Nigeria: Throwing the IDPs to the Sharks

The facts are not in doubt that though insurgency may not be at its peak in the BAY states and the rest of the Sahel but because of the need to close down the many internally… Read more »

Nigeria: Popular Nollywood Actor Confirmed Amongst Kidnappers Killed in Lagos Kidnapping Heist

Sunday Ehigiator Read more »