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Minna Detention Deaths: Panel Finds Suffocation, Not Disease, but No Officer Charged Yet

33 Dead in Civil Defence Custody: What the Minna Panel Found, and What Comes Next Standfirst: The federal investigative committee says the deaths of...

157 Civilians Killed in 10 Days as ISWAP Loses Foreign Fighters, Shura Council Member in Borno 

Taraba Massacre, Niger State Abductions and 34 Foreigners Arrested in Benue Standfirst: The military made significant counter-terrorism gains between 25 October and 3 November,...

From 10 to 62: Binnari and the Cost of Counting Late

On Friday, 23 October, gunmen entered Binnari, a river market town in Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State, shortly after Jumu'ah prayers...

The Middle Belt’s Empty Villages Need Counting, Not Slogans

Lydia Ingev was 49 when she fled Tse Tokula, a farming village in Guma, Benue State, one night in 2014. She had already lost...

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...

When Nigeria Outsources Trust to Machines, By Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum

Nigeria’s democracy is again at a familiar crossroads: the point where electoral reform is loudly promised, quietly diluted, and then defended as “procedure.” The...

ISWAP Ambushes Troops in Borno, Bandits Overrun Police Stations in Zamfara

Over the past week alone, more than 80 people were killed across Nigeria, with Zamfara, Borno, Kaduna, and Niger States emerging as the worst-affected...

Strongmen Don’t Build Nations

Across Africa, a familiar argument is making a comeback. It says our problem is not corruption, weak institutions, or poor governance, but leadership turnover....

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