Perspectives
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Africa turns back on South Africa: Xenophobia crisis triggers continental reckoning — by Kio Amachree
Something historic and irreversible is unfolding across the African continent and its diaspora communities worldwide. South Africa — the nation that once symbolised liberation, solidarity, and the triumphant defeat of white minority rule — is now being treated as a pariah state by the very people who once celebrated it as a beacon of Black freedom. And the consequences are…
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Enugu State: The proof South‑East is no longer abandoned under Tinubu — by Babajide Fadoju
For years, the people of the South‑East spoke one lament in unison. The region had been abandoned. Federal roads were allowed to decay. Bridges collapsed and were not repaired. Commuters faced five‑hour journeys that should have taken two. And successive administrations, regardless of which party held power in Abuja, seemed to treat the South‑East as an afterthought. But that narrative,…
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Terrorism, banditry: human body security system speaks! — by Femi Kusa
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu is saying Nigeria’s insecurity problem are causing him sleepless nights, depriving him of sound sleep, causing him to lose weight and age faster than he probably would have, and that all these personal problems are hidden underneath his heavy native robes. I believe the President. Only a leader who is not a human being would relish…
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Passing the buck to God — by Mahmud Jega
In the very weekend in which the insecurity situation in the country was further magnified by the death in bandits’ custody of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar, a top security official made a jarring attempt to pass the buck to God. Minister of State for Defence Mohammed Bello Mutawalle was quoted as having said in a BBC Hausa radio interview…
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America borrows power, Nigeria borrows survival, by Blaise Udunze
Findings show that the United States owes more than $36 trillion while Nigeria owes over N159.28 trillion, with external debt now standing at approximately $51.8 billion. At a first glance, when comparing the debt profiles of the world’s largest economy and Africa’s largest economy, it may though seem misplaced. America can borrow almost indefinitely because it issues the world’s reserve…
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SA’s unfinished project: Honouring the vision of the constitution at 30 — by Mbhazima Shilowa
As South Africa marks 30 years since the signing of its Constitution, Mbhazima Shilowa reflects on the gains and failures of the democratic era – and calls on all South Africans to move beyond commemoration and recommit to the unfinished work of building a united, just and prosperous nation its founders envisioned. On 10 December 1996, a few days after…
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State Police and the future of national security – by Seye Oladejo
The passage of the State Police Bill by the House of Representatives represents one of the most consequential legislative milestones in Nigeria’s democratic journey and a major breakthrough in our nation’s battle against insecurity. For years, progressive voices across the country have argued that Nigeria’s security challenges require bold, innovative and constitutionally-backed solutions. The increasing sophistication of criminal networks, the…
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A watershed moment: State police and the future of national security — by Seye Oladejo
The passage of the State Police Bill by the House of Representatives represents one of the most consequential legislative milestones in Nigeria’s democratic journey and a major breakthrough in our nation’s battle against insecurity. For years, progressive voices across the country have argued that Nigeria’s security challenges require bold, innovative and constitutionally-backed solutions. The increasing sophistication of criminal networks, the…
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Northern Nigeria will soon kill Nigeria — by Lasisi Olagunju
President Bola Tinubu, in his June 12 broadcast, condemned terrorists and their work but told us not to “assign blame or point fingers” because “crime has no ethnicity.” Crime may indeed have no ethnicity, but that does not relieve us of the duty to identify the environment that breeds and sustains it. A desert does not cease to be a…
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Ebonyi’s transformation: How subsidy removal and a focused governor are resetting the narrative — by Babajide Fadoju
For years, Ebonyi State was spoken of in terms of what it lacked: good roads, modern hospitals, affordable housing, and world‑class schools. It was the “newest” state in the South‑East, often left behind in infrastructure rankings, its rural communities cut off by impassable roads, its capital city struggling to shed the image of a sleepy administrative outpost. But a quiet…
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