There is something really intriguing and fascinating about having a wonderful friend of yours grow into the septuagenarian circle. And this is even more crucial when that colleague has a history of ...

A week ago, the ancient city of Kano witnessed a colourful spectacle as one of Nigeria's most respected legal minds, Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud (SAN), was turbaned with the traditional title of ...

Dr Jibrin Ibrahim is among a few public intellectuals in Northern Nigeria who have remained active in the country’s activism and political spaces for decades. His combination of scholarship, activism ...

This week, the Zamfara terrorism kingpin, Bello Turji, released 32 kidnapped persons and agreed to stop attacking farmers, following a series of meetings with some Islamic clerics in his hideout. This ...

We live in a post-truth world that is fuelled significantly by algorithms run by tech companies, and social influencers help them create agency. It is a multi-billion-dollar industry of mass ...

Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of narratives about the alleged genocide against Christians that is said to be on-going in Nigeria. The current wave of the narrative is essentially from ...

Nigerians have not had it so bad in recent history. The country is unravelling and the government is vacillating between denial and a pompous lack of concern to multiple unfolding crises. Trump’s ...

Nigerians should put pressure on the other parties to also accept that it is in the national interest that drug addicts should not be allowed to run our national or state affairs, and that the ...

Sadly for me, my fifty years of the study of political science has not helped me much in understanding Nigerian electoral politics. After 27 years of electoral democracy in the Fourth Republic and ...

I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones - Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere, Mandela, Sankara, etc. I know because of the thoughtless and ...

On 11th December 2025, we lost our dear comrade and friend, Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed. Sokoto, as we all called him, was the very definition of a progressive. His life was a permanent struggle to leave ...

In a joint statement titled “No to Foreign Forces in Our Land: Defend Our Sovereignty,” the duo traced Nigeria’s historical resistance to foreign military influence, recalling past defence agreements ...