Articles and op-eds

Who were the first people who supported the idea of state-level policing in Nigeria? By Anuoluwapo Idowu These were the guiding questions I asked on this topic. Initially, I was unsure about who the...

How armed groups are outrunning the Nigerian state, and what communities are paying for that failure By Nwanneka Miriam Ike On an ordinary school morning in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State, children filed...

With elections looming, do any of the Nigerian political parties actually have think tanks made up of men and women who have a mandate to think the unthinkable

A look of genuine shock washed over the faces of several Nigerians who recently joined the peaceful protests championed by the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the National Association...

I undertook a much-needed analysis, an X-ray observation of every intricate detail surrounding the Oyo school abduction situation, and unearthed a few sobering realities.  Truth, much like a crisis, rarely reveals itself in a...

I hope this kidnapping of the Oyo State pupils and teachers to spur the South West Governor’s Forum to turn Amotekun into a fully-fledged regional police force that will serve as a nationwide template

PSJ UK responds to the release of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Issue Update on Fulani militant violence in Nigeria — and asks the hard questions that Abuja must face....

Why are we so careless with our own lives in Southwest Nigeria? Do we imagine that some magical solution will arrive from Abuja, Akure, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti, or Abeokuta to protect us from the terrorists...

There is a difficult question many Nigerians are beginning to ask: why does it often feel like ordinary citizens are the ones repeatedly asked to retreat while criminal elements continue to expand their territories?

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has described the recent killings in Jos and Kaduna as “unacceptable.” That position is shared by many Nigerians. What is increasingly difficult to accept, however, is the widening gap between...