Articles and op-eds

For more than a decade, terrorism has turned Nigeria into a nation at war with itself — from Boko Haram’s savagery ravaging communities in the North-East to so-called bandits and kidnappers in the North-West...

On November 1st, U.S President, Donald Trump issued what many are calling an unprecedented threat to a sovereign African nation. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will...

The air in Abuja is thick with outrage. It’s not the familiar stench of insecurity or the chronic haze of corruption that hangs over the nation, but the collective indignation triggered by President Donald...

[1] I have always believed that it is our innovative spirit that will get Nigeria out of the economic doldrums and give us a gross domestic product (GDP) of $2trn in the not-too-distant future....

 [1] Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000...

A UK- born-Nigerian lawyer, writer and social justice advocate, Konyere Adiele-Uzoma holds a professional doctorate degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution. With three decades of experience in her kitty while specializing in debt recovery, legal...

As Nigeria marks 65 years of independence, we stand at a defining moment in our nation’s story. Independence is more than a date on the calendar; it is a promise of freedom, dignity, and...

With kidnapping arguably our biggest headache in Nigeria at the moment, the president needs to announce drastic measures like this on Independence Day tomorrow to combat the scourge.  

The loss of human lives as a cost of insecurity is immeasurable, leaving in its wake broken families, displaced children, and grieving communities. Every life cut short represents not just a statistic, but a...

Introduction: A Nation Held Hostage Across Nigeria, from the insurgency-plagued North-East to the volatile South-East, from the bandit-ravaged North-West to the highways of the South; insecurity has entrenched itself into our daily realities. Even...