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Nigeria 2027 Election: Supreme Court, Atiku vs Tinubu and the Battle for North Central Votes

Nigeria’s 2027 presidential race is moving from speculation to hard political tests: court rulings, candidate eligibility battles, opposition fragmentation, regional vote strategy and the...

Plateau Attacks · Sokoto Bandits · Lakurawa Crisis · Katsina Ambush · Sahel Cross-Border Threat

Your weekly Nigeria and Sahel security briefing — 13 events, fully sourced, fully analysed. This week: nine people killed across Plateau State. Bandits abduct...

Causes of the Middle Belt Conflicts Nobody Tells You Middle Belt Files epi 3.

How does a cow walking into a farm turn into 50,000 deaths? In Episode 03 of The Middle Belt Files, we go underneath Nigeria's deadliest...

Nigerian Military rescues 655 kidnap victims in nationwide operations as Senate prepares for high-level security summit

ABUJA, NIGERIA — The Armed Forces of Nigeria rescued 655 kidnapping victims and engaged in 367 operational encounters across various regional theatres during September,...

The Parable of Nero of Nairaland, By Abdul Mahmud

There is a country called Nairaland. It appears on maps drawn with generous imagination and studied with careful denial. In that country, bombs go...

The Discipline of Power and the Question of State Police, By Abdul Mahmud

Power is often imagined as force. It is seen as something loud and visible. A president signs a bill. A governor deploys security agents....

Remembering Murtala Muhammed,By Abdul Mahmud

On 13 February 1975, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was killed in Lagos. Fifty years later, the date still matters because his leadership belonged to...

Kajuru and the Retreat of Truth, by Abdul Mahmud

A garrisoned state should not wake up to the disappearance of one hundred and seventy-seven citizens and then drift into equivocation. Kaduna State is...

Bashir Ahmad and the Numbers He Wants Us Not to See, By Abdul Mahmud

Bashir Ahmad has returned to the public space with a familiar tactic. He downplays numbers. He doubts documented suffering. He questions figures that speak...

Poor Health as the Bogeyman, By Abdul Mahmud

Poor health has become the most powerful figure in Tinubu's presidency. It walks in without knocking. It taps a man on the shoulder. It...

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