NextierSince Nigeria returned to civil rule in May 1999 (after nearly two decades of militaryauthoritarianism), the country has been engulfed in cyclical violent conflicts. The dawn of civil rule coincided with the proliferation of ethnic militias, a...
Image Credit: Sahara Reporters Nigeria is currently at the crossroads on how to manage the jihadist terrorism that has ravaged parts of its sprawling northern region for over a decade. Over the years, the State has deployed the ‘stick’...
Image Credit: CSIS Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, advances in science and technology have been stretched to the limits and even called into question. The COVID-19 has not only killed thousands of persons daily but cases of infection have...
Image Credit: BBC Most sprawling cities and squalid seminaries in northern Nigeria are populated by itinerant Qur’anic pupils known as almajirai. The rumpled street children, mostlyyoung boys between the ages of three and twelve, have become a...
Image Credit: Washington post The Protocol on Free Movement for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the related Protocol on transhumance have contributed immensely to theliberalisation of freedom of movement of Community...
Image Credit: NTA.ng The Boko Haram insurgency and the subsequent counterinsurgency operations in the Northeast have resulted in nearly 30,000 fatalities, over two million displacements and more than 10.6 million persons relying on humanitarian...
In writing Development as Freedom, one of the essential freedoms suggested by Amatya Sen is “the liberty of acting as citizens who matter and whose voices count” (1999: 288). Involving the poor in the assessment of their needs...
Image Credit: Impact Nigeria The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) was launched by the Lake Chad Basin states and Benin on October 7, 2014, in a bid to mitigate the growing regionalisation of the Boko Haram terrorism. The regional stabilisation...
Image Credit: UNHCR The world is currently enmeshed in a displacement crisis. Over 79.5 million persons are displaced worldwide due to several factors, such as violent conflicts and persecution. With 3.4 million displaced persons, Nigeria...
Image Credit: Newsweek The need to articulate a framework for value orientation and leadership development in the Niger Delta cannot be overemphasized. For decades, the problems of the Delta have been the subject of discussion both at national and...