BY TUNDE RAHMAN Nigeria has significantly contributed troops and police officers to the United Nations peacekeeping operations worldwide since 1960. That year, the Nigeria Police deployed the first-ever contingent of individual police officers to the UN Mission in the Congo. Assistant Commissioner of Police Louis Edet led the team at the time. In these operations, Nigeria resolutely committed herself…
BY CHETA NWANZE As news of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah reaches our shores, it would be understandable for some Nigerians to find themselves drawing parallels to our tumultuous history with Boko Haram. The shift in leadership that often follows such strikes, typically resulting in more radicalised and violent successors, is a familiar pattern. The Nigerian Boko Haram insurgency is…
BY ILIYASU GADU During the military regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, the struggle to return Nigeria to civilian democratic rule was led largely by political personalities and intelligentsia from the south western part of the country. This became even more strident following the annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections by the Babangida regime. The coming…
BY AYODELE OLUWAFEMI The Borno state police command says it has arrested four suspects for allegedly stealing relief materials donated to victims of flood in Maiduguri, the capital. The suspects are Abubakar Usman, 32, Mohammed Bukar, 37, Ibrahim Abubakar, 28, and Jamilu Mohammed, 24. The flood, which occurred on September 10, displaced thousands of residents from the Fori, Galtimari,…
Another first day Of the tenth monthOf another yearAnd its caravan of memories Seasons comeSeasons goBut the sky looms above our dreams An umbrella with a thousand holes How I wish I could shout “Happy Birthday, Dear Country”, dance all the way fromOur Delta doldrums to our Sahel fringes To a national song free of “native” and “tribe” My…
Step right up, folks! Watch the magic unfold— See how a bomb “accidentally” finds a school. Oops! My bad, says the general, sipping tea, But don’t worry, they were “militants,” probably. Here in Gaza, we play the latest game: “Eviction by Explosion”—catchy name! A house, a block, no, wait, the whole street’s gone, Don’t blink now, or you’ll miss…
Bound by chains, yet his spirit sails across oceans. The fire within him burns through centuries of oppression, heralding the dawn of freedom.
Even in the heart of the storm, the African woman remains poised—guided by the winds of resilience and strength of her ancestors. Her journey is one of defiance against the tides of adversity.
Erased? Ha! Is that what you think? That you can erase us, make us small, Shrink us into nothingness with your laws, your silence? Oh, you’ve tried, haven’t you? Oh, how you’ve tried! But we, we will not disappear like shadows at dusk. No, we are here, and we are vast, as vast as the sky itself.You think you can conquer love? Oh, my dear,…
“And what is your crime?” the judge, he said, “To whom did you cause harm or dread? For I see no blood, no theft, no pain, Yet you stand accused all the same.Is it love that brought you here today? And if it is, then what can I say? For love, in all its varied forms, Should never be the cause of storms.But still, the…
What happens when you challenge the establishment?…
The Great Delusion invites you into a…
—for Professor Alofoje Unuigboje— by Majekodunmi Oseriemen…
By Majekodunmi Oseriemen Ebhohon They say the…
