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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...

177 abducted in Kaduna churches. Soldiers killed in Zamfara. Cyber attacks rising. Nigeria’s security situation remains volatile.

Nigeria’s security situation remained volatile over the past week, with fresh developments across multiple fronts — mass kidnappings, deadly ambushes, cyber insecurity, and a...

When Defection Turns Into Defeat

Politics is often mistaken for proximity to power. In reality, it is about leverage. Nigeria’s unfolding wave of defections from the People’s Democratic Party...

Making Peace With Undefeated Bandits Is Not Peace—It Is Capitulation, By Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum

Across Nigeria’s North-West and parts of the North-Central, a dangerous idea has quietly taken root: that peace can be bought by negotiating with armed...

Nigeria’s Fourth Republic : What Is Working and What is not, Rep. Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje

Nigeria Fourth Republic, Nigerian Democracy Analysis, What Is Working in Nigeria, What Is Failing in Nigeria, National Assembly Nigeria, Hon Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje, Nigeria Governance Crisis, Post-1999 Nigerian Politics, Legislative Performance Nigeria, Nigeria Political...

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...

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