Scarred children, broken systems: Nigeria’s betrayal of its future
As Nigerians love to say, a gust of wind has exposed the chicken’s rump. It is a rather unrefined proverb but one that seems crudely fitting for what
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Ikwechegh and the impunity of Nigeria’s elite
As we have learnt this week, some Nigerian public officials apparently have the power to make Nigerians disappear and “nothing will happen.” No, we ar
Breaking the cycle: Addressing Nigeria’s fuel tanker explosions and flooding crises
We have seen this before, haven’t we? Perhaps a dozen or a hundred times, already. It doesn’t seem to matter. A tanker filled to the brim with highly
Matawalle and the politicisation of banditry
The discourse on the current state of insecurity in Nigeria will not be complete if Zamfara is not featured at the heart of that conversation. It is,
Charlatanism, pulpit scams and ritual murders
They get younger these days, don’t they, our army of ritual murderers? And we have a lot of them. Killers. Potential killers. They are all out there,