Public conversations about insecurity in Nigeria almost always collapse into one familiar argument: religion. From claims of an “Islamic agenda” to talk of “Christian persecution” or “Fulani jihad,” the narrative is often reduced to faith — a simple, emotional explanation for a complex national tragedy. But these labels, though loud and deeply internalised, miss the real story. Worse still, they are tearing apart communities that have lived side by side, shared food, and raised families together for generations. The uncomfortable truth is this: Nigeria’s insecurity is not a religious war. It is a criminal economy — organised, protected, and sustained…
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UNICEF has introduced suggestion boxes and help desks in every ward across Zamfara State as part of a renewed push to strengthen feedback, accountability, and service delivery in the state’s health and nutrition sectors. The intervention follows the organisation’s latest assessment, which revealed persistent gaps affecting child survival, nutrition delivery, and education outcomes. The initiative was unveiled on Wednesday by Ms Wafaa Saeed, UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, during a field engagement visit that highlighted weak feedback mechanisms, growing community dissatisfaction with Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) services, and lapses in monitoring critical nutrition supplies. A major concern highlighted by UNICEF…
While hundreds of innocent citizens are being killed weekly and entire communities, including school children, are abducted with alarming frequency, Nigeria’s dire security crisis is unfolding on the global stage in bizarre fashion. In the showbiz capital of the world, America is turning a national tragedy into a spectacle—an opportunity for President Trump to posture as a global saviour, “guns a-blazing,” in defence of Christendom. Enter the famous U.S.-based Trinidadian-American singer, Nicki Minaj— or at least the latest surgically enhanced version of her. She has undergone so many cosmetic alterations that her own people in Trinidad might only recognise her…
Nathaniel Samuel, a Christian from Southern Kaduna, changed his name to Mohammed and smuggled a bomb into his own church during service, intent on detonating it. The obvious motive was, of course, to murder as many worshippers as possible. That is indeed reprehensible enough considering the means of achieving it, but it was Samuel’s second objective that exceeded the limit of debauchery. Massacring fellow Christians during the hour of worship in order to make people of another faith take the blame is an enterprise only the devil himself can inspire. The question, however, remains whether the young man was working…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday, paid a working visit to Diffa Region in the Niger Republic to strengthen collaboration in the fight against insurgency along the Nigeria–Niger border. Zulum, who led a high-level security and economic delegation, held discussions on joint patrols, intelligence sharing, and sustaining progress made in clearing insurgents from parts of the Lake Chad basin. Diffa, located about 17 kilometres from Damasak in northern Borno, currently hosts thousands of Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. The governor was received by the Governor of Diffa, Brig.-Gen. Mahamaduo Bagadoma and other senior officials. Both leaders…
On that fateful day, June 7th, 2025, at about 3 25pm at the 37 Military Hospital, our father, ex-WO1 (Elder) Victor Hanson Asante, gently took a bow and said goodbye to us. A day, and a memory to live with for the rest of my life. It was a gentle departure, but within you, you knew the pain you went through. Myself, my senior brother Michael, and my younger brother Paul thought you were going to come back home to us again, but that was not the case. We came back home not with you but with your shorts and…
“Nigeria is a work in progress. But unless we restructure the federation in a way that truly empowers its diverse peoples, the progress will remain a mirage.” – Prof. Maxwell Gidado SAN
When I set out for Bodinga on the morning of Monday, July 21, 2025, I had no idea I was about to witness something extraordinary—a story not found in the headlines, but one that left a lasting mark on my heart. In Bodinga, a quiet local government area in Sokoto State, a grassroots education revolution is quietly taking shape. At the center of it all is a soft-spoken young man with a thick beard and an even thicker resolve: Muhammad Kabir Abdulkadir—better known to many as MK Bodinga. He’s not your everyday school proprietor. He’s a dreamer, a doer, and…
A coalition of civil society organisations under the banner of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) has raised alarm over what it describes as gross human rights violations and the shrinking of civic space in Ebonyi State, particularly surrounding the continued detention of prominent activist Emmanuel Acha. At a media briefing held in Aba, Abia State, the group alleged that Acha, a well-known human rights advocate and Chairperson of the Enugu State Civil Society Network — has been unjustly incarcerated for over three months in Abakaliki Prison. His arrest, according to the coalition, followed a legal challenge he…
A recent academic study has confirmed that Form-Based Language Instruction (FBLI) significantly improves English performance among secondary school students in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The groundbreaking research, conducted by Dr. Muhammad Aliyu Sajo and Dr. Isah Muhammad of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, found that students exposed to FBLI demonstrated substantial gains in their command of the English language compared to those taught using traditional methods. Published in the Global Journal of Research in Education & Literature, the study titled “An Exploratory Investigation of the Pedagogic Value of Form-Based English Language Instruction in Selected Secondary Schools in Sokoto State” sought to…