Articles and op-eds

 [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...

It’s easy to become numb to headlines. “Another attack in Plateau.” “Farmer-Herder Clashes.” “Communal Violence.” But these words do not capture the raw truth — they do not scream loud enough about the reality...

Nigeria is currently ranked as the third most dangerous country behind Afghanistan and Iraq in the Global Terrorism Index due largely to terrorist related activities, particularly in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. As of...

The phenomenon of village abandonment in Nigeria, particularly over the last two decades, has evolved from a localised concern into a national humanitarian crisis with far-reaching implications. In the heart of Nigeria, where rich...

In the dense vegetation of Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest, foreign fighters move silently alongside local insurgents, their expertise honed in conflict zones from Libya to Mali. This transnational dimension of terrorism represents one of the...