Monday, July 27, 2026

ABDUL MAHMUD

August 4, 2025

Nigeria at Golgotha, crucified by betrayal 

Our country has drifted from the malnourished promise of a kwashiorkor democracy into the firm grip of an oligarchy where courts no longer dispense justice but serve cabal whims.

Bola Tinubu
July 28, 2025

 Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, transactional activism and the price of principles

True activists fight for the future. Transactional activists fight for contracts.

Gani Fawehinmi and Fela Kuti
July 21, 2025

As Hyacinth Alia and Monday Okpebholo become Nigeria’s latest petty tyrants

Governors aren’t elected to stoke tensions, but to calm them when they erupt.

Benue Governor Hyacinth Alia and Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo
July 14, 2025

Chidi Odinkalu’s ‘The Selectorate’ highlights Nigerians’ tolerance of rogue judges

It is a book about us: our passivity, our complicity, and our silence.

Chidi Odinkalu's new book 'The Selectorate'
July 7, 2025

How Reno Omokri misread Ahidjo-Biya political feud in Cameroon

Reno Omokri’s warning assumes that the north is incapable of political rebirth. That is untrue.

Reno Omokri and Paul Biya
June 30, 2025
Nigerian masses
June 23, 2025

How Nigeria can break its surge of large-scale bloodshed  

Today, there is no true homeland for our citizens, only homesteads of grief.

Armed herdsmen
June 16, 2025

Why Benue killing fields deserve our attention

As dusk falls over the valley, it is not nighttime prayers or the laughter of children that echo through the land, but the dirges of the grieving and shovels digging mass graves.

Killer herdsmen and Bola Tinubu
June 9, 2025

How to end the deadly war on Nigerian women and children

A country rich in oil and gas. Rich in resources. But bankrupt in everything else, especially leadership.

Nigerian women and children
June 2, 2025

‘Demonstration of Craze’ and the burden of activism

Our civil rule remains a demonstration of craze, a circus of politicians in agbada, pretending to serve, while they loot and lie.

Gani Fawehinmi and Femi Falana