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The Media Side of the Raid on Katsina School

Insecurity in Nigeria has taken a definite media dimension. This is not unusual. It is always part of the communication strategy of terrorists or purveyors of violence.

Another International Observer Mission Rules Out Systematic Fraud in U.S. Presidential Election

International Observers may have stolen the thunder from Donald Trump’s protests over the conduct of last week’s presidential polls in the country. Although a number

Nigerians Reflect on Dr Yima Sen and Radical Politics

It will be another Nigeria in conversation Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 when radical nationalists, patriots, family, friends, colleagues and sundry activists gather

50 Nigerian CSOs Hit Against Police Hot Pursuit of Barrister Saida Saad

50 civil society organisations are challenging the Kano Police Command over an obvious hot pursuit the command has mounted to get at a Kaduna based Barrister for

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Prof Ibrahim Gambari and a Risk Society

Nigeria is, today, a perfect example of the Risk Society. The Risk Society is not a theory of Nigerian politics but its main argument applies very well to Nigeria.

How Can Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir Perform Friday Congregational Prayer Amidst FG Coronavirus Restrictions?

Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir’s congressional prayers in Jos today has provoked an angry reaction in this piece by Comrade Muhammed Ishaq, PhD in Mathematics from the

Women's Voices on the Big Question of Unequal Powers and the 2020 International Women’s Day

It is 2020 International Women’s Day and all manner of actors are identifying and posing their own puzzle about ‘The Women Question’. It is unlikely that any other

Unpacking the ‘Murder in the Bedroom’ Turn in Domestic Violence

By Onyeisi Chiemeke Lagos lawyer and activist, Barrister Chiemeke Onyeisi, retouches an old article to unpack a rising wave of heartless domestic violence, particularly

The Gender Storm Over Artificial Intelligence @ the 2019 Berlin Internet Governance Forum

<br/ The author By Y. Z Y’a’u* The 14th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which was held in Berlin, Germany from 25 to 29 November 2019, had the contestable theme

Donald Trump, Iran and the Howl of a Dying Empire?

Whether the United States is a declining power has been a subject of a long debate since the mid 1980s. It could be said that the intervention of the late Prof Susan

Recalling the Tolulope Arotile Symbolism

Tolulope Arotile is dead and gone to heaven, if the testimonial on her purity by her anguished father who appeared on Channels Television in the wake of her demise

A Star Goes Home in Mrs Alache Paulyn Ofikwu-Adama

It is not clear if she was correctly understood during her life time but she was in a class of her own. She had physical beauty, class, education and what someone

Obasanjo Changes Gear on Dress Code, Goes Western

It must be an evidence of the many sidedness of the Obasanjo persona. Contrary to his earlier view that he did not accept that being decked in Western suit, for

Intriguing Silence of the 2019 Election Professors to Jega’s Bombshell

It is now two full weeks since Prof Attahiru Jega, the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) threw the bombshell that

Euronews' Safari Image of Africa

Of all the violence and turmoil in the conflict riddled Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), what global channel, Euronews found as its pick of the day from there

Writing Banditry in Nigeria

The resurgence of banditry in Nigeria remains the big story in town. It is everywhere in the headlines, one of the most powerful source of information for the generality

New York Times Discovers the Secret of Obafemi Awolowo University Campus

This material below is reproduced from The New York Times. It is reproduced for many reasons, one of which is that it solves a puzzle about which Intervention also

The Absent Presence of Leah Sharibu, Remaining Chibok Girls

<br/ All for the remaining Chibok girls in captivity She wasn’t there but she was there. That is Leah Sharibu, the 16 year old school girl who is now more than

Undergraduates Dodging Writing on Corruption in CITAD Essay Competition?

Nigerian undergraduates participating in two essay competitions thrown open to them by the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development, (CITAD)