-By Abdul Mahmud Last week, I read a few Facebook posts about the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference which took place in Port Harcourt. The Uyo-based lawyer and scholar, Solomon Ekokoi’s post on the shoddy arrangements captured the mood better than most. There was, clearly, much to complain about in the organisation of … [Read more…]
By SNC Nwagu The debate over whether NATO can function without substantial American military support is essentially a European question. But its implications are unmistakably African. For more than seven decades, American power has underwritten NATO. Now, as Washington reassesses its global commitments, Europe is being forced to assume greater responsibility for its own defense. … [Read more…]
-By Abdul Mahmud Exactly 35 years ago today, on Wednesday, 28 August 1991, the gates of the Maximum Security Prison, Kirikiri, were finally flung open, and two young student leaders walked out into the Lagos morning after four months of detention by the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, carrying with them the belongings with … [Read more…]
By Sebastine Okafor, Ph.D. A few days ago, the National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Seriake Dickson, convened a meeting for all the leaders of the party in Enugu State to identify the issues affecting the party and discuss how to move the party forward. As the Secretary of the party in … [Read more…]
-By Abdul Mahmud In my op-ed last week, Nigeria’s CODESA Moment, I argued that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) had not yet entered the kind of unmistakable electoral decline that would make its defeat in 2027 a reasonable assumption. That, however, is not the same as saying that the APC is electorally invulnerable. The … [Read more…]
By Sebastine Okafor, Ph.D. A few days ago, I saw media reports about the endorsement of a factional candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Enugu State Chapter, by 22 communities in Awkunanaw, and how his supporters were jubilating over it. I was pleased to see that the factional candidate was engaging with some of … [Read more…]
By SNC Nwagu, Esq., FIICA, MNIIA The next frontier of African sovereignty is not another declaration. It is the capacity to protect African lives. For decades, Africa has remained at the receiving end of humanitarian intervention. When war erupts, communities are displaced and populations face famine, disease or violence, the familiar pattern begins: international agencies … [Read more…]
By Emmanuel Uchenna Chukwu Leadership is ultimately judged by impact. Not by the number of promises made during campaigns. Not by the volume of political speeches. And certainly not by how loudly supporters or opponents speak on social media. Leadership is judged by what changes. It is judged by what the people can see, what … [Read more…]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Nigerians are an excitable lot. It is, therefore, not surprising that the outcome of the August 15 off-cycle Osun governorship election is generating so much buzz. To be sure, the outcome calls for celebration because for the first time in a long while, the will of the people prevailed in an election. … [Read more…]
The proposal by the G-100, a coalition of 100 Nigerians advocating that the opposition parties should unite behind a single presidential candidate for the 2027 election, deserves to be taken more seriously than the familiar reactions that greet every attempt at opposition consolidation in Nigeria. The group’s intervention comes at a particularly important moment because, … [Read more…]
By SNC Nwagu, FIICA, MNIIA For nearly eight decades, the international system has operated largely under an American-led order. From Bretton Woods and the United Nations to NATO, the dominance of the US dollar, Silicon Valley and an unrivalled naval reach, the United States has shaped global finance, security, technology and governance. Today, that order … [Read more…]
-By Abdul Mahmud The reported death of Faith Alayande, a 23-year-old female student of the Nigerian Law School who was found dead after a fall from the rooftop of a hostel at the School’s Lagos Campus in the early hours of Friday, 7 August 2026, should not be reduced to another tragic piece in the … [Read more…]