Sowore, the Kidnap That Became an Attack, and the Burden of Credibility
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D There is something deeply troubling about the ease with which grave allegations are made in Nigeria, the speed with which they...
Category : Opinion
Supporting Workers Today, Preparing for a Sustainable Wage Review: The Fiscal Purpose of the ₦70,000 Intervention
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has spoken about the pressure that rising living costs place on workers and their families. These concerns deserve attention. When...
Women of Alabuga: Trafficked labour and Russian propaganda that sells it
By Ipole Amajama The photographs arrived first, as they always do. Young women in hard hats, smiling against a backdrop of laboratories and dormitories, holding...
Quirky Activism: As Sowore Rejects the ‘Tout’ Label
By Louis Achi By cavalierly weaponizing freedom of expression and deploying a nimble asymmetric warfare strategy against perceived opponents, irascible human rights activist and African...
653 Terrorism Convictions: Justice Beyond the Numbers
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D, FIMC, CMC There is something reassuring about the law asserting itself against those accused of unleashing terror upon a nation. For...
Closing Nigeria’s conflict response gap in the Middle Belt
By Bernard Basason & Jamilu Musa Nigeria’s Middle Belt has become one of the country’s most persistent and deadly theatres of violence, with farmer-herder conflicts,...
Kaduna rally as the North’s referendum on Tinubu
By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz Through Kaduna, its old political capital, the North spoke yesterday (Saturday). And the echo will haunt those who have spent months marketing...
A Misguided Narrative: The Dangerous Implications Of Punch’s Editorial
By Otunba Biodun Ajiboye The Punch Editorial Board’s October 16, 2026 piece on the political participation of chief executives of federal parastatals is far worse...
Why the Decan Award Sits Well on General Oluyede’s Head
By Peter KellyAn award means more when it comes from people who follow your work closely and are in a position to assess its impact....
The Day History Stood Still: A Traveler’s Diary From Hiroshima
By Mahmud Muhammad Standing in Hiroshima today left me truly speechless. I have visited many places in the course of my academic and professional life,...