Articles and op-eds

The Nigerian Police said it was only 162 people, as opposed to what some media outlets gave as 170. They claimed the figures were bloated just to denigrate the present administration. Now, the first...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amidst a diverse gathering of global faith leaders and policymakers at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit, a clear consensus emerged: the ongoing violence in Nigeria has reached a tipping point...

Terrorism Financing: The Cost of an AK-47 vs the Cost of Living in Nigeria At an average market price of ₦20,000 per bag, 3,000 bags of maize amount to roughly ₦60 million. Yet the...

Three years have passed since the United Kingdom began publicly assisting Nigeria in its efforts to confront the country’s domestic kidnapping crisis. Over the same period, figures from  Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics show...

There is a kind of fatalism in our public conversation nowadays. It resurfaces in group discussions, on panels; you hear it in the weary asides of professionals who have done their best to the...

In the last quarter of 2025, Nigeria faced credible threats of American intervention over allegations of Christian persecution. The Federal Government reached for its diplomatic arsenal and found the storeroom empty, exposing Nigeria's acute...

On Tuesday, 13 January 2026, the UK House of Commons held an important adjournment debate on Nigeria’s Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB), a critical human rights issue that has deep implications for peace,...

To Those Who Hold the Power to Act:   We write not with statistics alone, but with the weight of 166 families who do not know if their loved ones will return home. We...

“We used to live peacefully. But before we left our home, fear consumed us. Bandits were killing and kidnapping people. My parents allowed us to go to school until one of our neighbours was...

It was meant to be the sound of school bells, but it was gunshots that rang louder at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri on that fateful day. Children as young as six were...