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Illiteracy is both developmental and national security issue

Sunday, 8 September passed virtually unnoticed, especially by those of us who have more reason to bother than anyone else. Observed every year since 1

PDP vs. all comers: Strategic overview

I can’t remember any election in contemporary Nigeria where the acclaimed victor opted to follow the dictates of his conscience rather than follow the

A REQUIEM FOR SYRIA

America and its allies are not afraid of Russian and Chinese (or the United Nations’) opposition to any frontal intervention. Not at all. Moscow and B

Egypt: Return of the Fuloul (III)

Perhaps because of the impermanence of this world—and the inherent futility of pursuit after it—and the centrality of the hereafter to Islam, Islamist

Did America really predict Nigeria will break-up in 2015?

As I waited over a glass of red wine, I found myself seated quite close to two gentlemen and a lady. I was not deliberately eavesdropping on their con