Don’t Mind The IGP, Nigeria Is Mature For State Police
The Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), Kayode Egbetokun, reacted from his most selfish impulses in his recent statement that Nigeria was not “mature” enough for state police.…
The Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), Kayode Egbetokun, reacted from his most selfish impulses in his recent statement that Nigeria was not “mature” enough for state police.…
Nigeria’s three main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP) – are in turmoil. They have been infested by…
The words of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye were honey to taste. Following the bitter ending of the 12-year rule of Macky Sall, highlighted by the widespread belief that France is…
Before The Human Flow was published, Jonathan, one of Europe’s most accomplished foreign affairs columnists and journalists, had talked with excitement about the book. It was his first novel. Like…
When Lt. Colonel Abdullahi Hassan Ali, 49, assumed duties as Commanding Officer of the 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army, all his mother, Hassana, could do was pray. Three…
Nigerian banks may not have solely created today’s inclement economic weather, but they have been a catalyst and an albatross on the country. Corrupt, greedy and notorious, top bankers are…
Inter-house sports day (“sports day”) is when primary and secondary schools host their annual sports competition in Nigeria. In many schools, students are grouped into houses for planning, organisation and…
The press has been unkind to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. I find it hard to understand why, of all the problems at this time, from the cost-of-living crisis…
The journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week. In the early 1990s a neighbouring town, Zango Kataf, was…
I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Rolling blackouts…