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Funding concerns about decentralised policing demand we mind current leaks
Imagine Nigeria’s public security financing as a rambling, poorly audited ledger. On one side, enormous sums are recorded under vague headings – “security vote", "miscellaneous", and “special services” – with little trace of what they actually buy....
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Towards a pragmatic, productive foreign policy for Nigeria and the new ambassadors
The recent nomination of ambassadors by President Bola Tinubu has reopened a long-neglected debate about the direction and purpose of Nigeria’s foreign policy in a rapidly changing world. For decades, Nigeria moved from a champion of anti-colonial struggl...
Editor | Dec 10, 2025
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Beyond division of powers: Cooperative models to enhance public service delivery in Nigeria
In 2020, the Attorney General of the Federation challenged the South-West governors’ Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun), citing exclusive federal power over security and defence. This came amid herder violence that national agencies seemed unable...
Editor | Dec 09, 2025
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Rebuilding Nigeria’s diplomatic–defence nexus for national stability and international credibility
For decades, Nigeria has treated diplomacy and defence as two separate worlds, one speaking the language of protocol abroad, the other fighting visible and invisible battles at home. But the events of recent years have shown clearly that the country’s int...
Editor | Dec 08, 2025
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Reviving the Green Gold: Making agriculture Nigeria’s economic backbone again
Every nation carries within its history the story of how it first learned to sustain itself, how people tilled the land, exchanged goods, built communities, and gradually shaped an economy. In Nigeria, that story once revolved around the quiet rhythm of a...
Editor | Dec 05, 2025
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Maximising Detty December to strengthen Nigeria’s tourism and aviation sector
Every December, Nigeria becomes one of Africa’s busiest festive destinations. From diaspora homecomings to weddings, concerts, cultural festivals and other social events, “Detty December” has grown beyond a celebratory period into a significant economic m...
Editor | Dec 04, 2025
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When war rhetoric came calling, clarity collapsed and Nigeria media lost the story
A former NLNG chief, Chima Ibeneche, once captured the contradiction deftly when he said Nigeria produced “world-class journalists” (the likes of Babatunde Jose, Peter Enahoro, Mamman Daura, and Dele Giwa) but lacked world-class media institutions....
Editor | Dec 03, 2025
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Nigeria’s policing paradox: Tinubu’s VIP directive and the bigger picture
The directive by President Tinubu that police officers be withdrawn from Very Important Persons (VIPs) has reignited one of Nigeria’s most enduring debates: the paradox of a country that is chronically under-policed yet persistently diverts scarce officer...
Editor | Dec 02, 2025
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From abduction to release: Nigeria's kidnapping pandemic demands urgent cure
On November 17, 2025, armed bandits invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, killed the vice principal, and kidnapped twenty-five schoolgirls. Twenty-four hours later, another group of gunmen attacked a CAC Church ...
Editor | Dec 01, 2025
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