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Now, nowhere is safe (2), by Hassan Gimba

Now, nowhere is safe (2), by Hassan Gimba The Arbiter I believe Nigerians should no longer accept to be fooled by those who use their sentiments...

Now, nowhere is safe (1), by Hassan Gimba

Now, nowhere is safe (1), by Hassan Gimba The Arbiter First, they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist. Then...

Musings on Neptune Prime’s maiden colloquium, by Mahdi Garba

Musings on Neptune Prime’s maiden colloquium, by Mahdi Garba Nigeria has been ridden with different crises like other countries in the Global South. From...

Life in Nigeria as a dress rehearsal for hell, by Osmund Agbo

Life in Nigeria as a dress rehearsal for hell, by Osmund Agbo As Ukrainian cities are buffeted by Russian tanks, the west are tightening the...

APC, Beware the Ides of March, by Hassan Gimba

APC, Beware the Ides of March, by Hassan Gimba The Arbiter “When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.” –...

Public intellectuals, the Nigerian left and blind spots, by Osmund Agbo

The tone often strikes whimsical when a political activist like Omoleye Sowore is reminded that his reward is in paradise. That is to the...

Africa and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, by Azu Ishiekwene

Conversation with Azu War is messy and never fails to spread responsive misery. When Adolf Hitler asked for safe passage to East Prussia through the...

APC: Dribbling itself to score an own goal, by Kazeem Akintunde

APC: Dribbling itself to score an own goal, by Kazeem Akintunde The late soccer legend, Diego Armando Maradona, at the peak of his football career,...

Putin’s love for the Russian Roulette, by Osmund Agbo

It was nerve-racking for a 37-year-old lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin as he watched angry crowds overrun the sprawling Stasi compound, the inner sanctum of...

Unpacking the changing faces of Terror in Nigeria, by Osmund Agbo

“The northwest’s problem is not ungoverned spaces as wonks like to say, but spaces governed by criminal sovereigns.” - James Barnett Bandits, Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah...

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