By Adamu S. Ladan fcai Christiane Amanpour’s planned departure from CNN in June 2027, after more than four decades with the network, marks a defining moment in an extraordinary television career. As…
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FARIDA ISIAK: WHO WILL PROTECT THE YOUNG JOURNALIST?
FARIDA ISIAK: WHO WILL PROTECT THE YOUNG JOURNALIST? By Shu’aibu Usman-Leman Last Wednesday, October 21,2026, I wrote about Dele Giwa, the legendary Nigerian journalist murdered by a parcel bomb in October 1986….
Radda and Masari: Two Powers, One Party, One Stronghold At Stake
Radda and Masari: Two Powers, One Party, One Stronghold At Stake By Adamu Aminu A governor with deep roots in Katsina and a presidential adviser with the President’s ear are reported to…
Is Nigeria Really a Failed State?
By Kayode Oladipupo Nigeria’s problems are real. But are our conclusions about their scale equally reliable? Reports of insecurity, school closures, farmers abandoning their fields and households struggling to afford food frequently…
HOW ONE POST CAN RUIN A LIFE
HOW ONE POST CAN RUIN A LIFE Before you post, pause. Before you forward, verify. Ignorance of the Cybercrime Act is no defence. By Law Mefor Unknown to most people, one post…
Dele Giwa: 40 Years After The Letter Bomb — A Tribute To A Man Who Refused To Whisper
Dele Giwa: 40 Years After The Letter Bomb — A Tribute To A Man Who Refused To Whisper March 16, 1947 – October 19, 1986 By Comrade Salihu Othman Isah Forty years…
Bought Votes, Stolen Futures
By Babayola M. Toungo There is something profoundly obscene about a political class that presides over mass poverty and then turns around to exploit that same poverty as a means of acquiring…
Sokoto And The Future Of Housing In Nigeria
Sokoto And The Future Of Housing In Nigeria By Adamu Aminu. When the early morning sun rises over the ancient city of Sokoto, it casts its light over centuries of history, quiet…
Amnesty International Nigeria:No Impunity For Sponsors Of Electoral Violence And Vote-Buying
Amnesty International Nigeria:No Impunity For Sponsors Of Electoral Violence And Vote-Buying By Auwal Musa Rafsanjani Chairman, Amnesty International Nigeria Electoral violence and vote-buying violate human rights and undermine democracy. Amnesty International Nigeria…
Northern Nigeria Ahead of 2027: Fuel Subsidy, Security, the Economy or Empty Promises?
By Abba Dukawa Democracy becomes meaningless when citizens are not secure. The ballot has no value when lives are not safe, and governance has no meaning when the state cannot guarantee the…
WOFAN Turns Years Of Hardship Into Renewed Hope For Spinal Cord Patient In Jigawa
WOFAN Turns Years Of Hardship Into Renewed Hope For Spinal Cord Patient In Jigawa By Lamara Garba, Veteran Journalist, Kano For 16 years, Rakiya Ibrahim watched her son, Zuladaini Attahir, lose nearly…
Back to Trenches: Why Dangiwa’s Experience Matters in 2027
By Adamu S. Ladan Four years have passed in what seems like the blink of an eye. Once again, the political season is upon us, and the familiar rhythm of campaign organisation,…
Abba Kabir Yusuf: The North’s Strongest Political Bridge To Tinubu’s 2027 Presidency
Abba Kabir Yusuf: The North’s Strongest Political Bridge To Tinubu’s 2027 Presidency By Lamara Garba In Nigerian politics, where power is consolidated through alliances, influence is demonstrated through mobilisation, and electoral victories…
Wishing A.T.M Gwarzo And His Team Success As DG Campaign For Tinubu/Shettima, Abba/Garo In the 2027 Elections
Wishing A.T.M Gwarzo And His Team Success As DG Campaign For Tinubu/Shettima, Abba/Garo In the 2027 Elections By Shehu Mustapha Chaji Engr. Abdullahi Tijjani Muhammad Gwarzo needs no introduction as a politician…
Governance: Communication That Delivers Results
By Kayode Oladipupo In Nigeria, government’s biggest communication problem may not be what it fails to announce, but what its announcements fail to deliver. Policies are unveiled, billions of naira are committed,…
When The State Steps Back, The Waqf Steps In
When The State Steps Back, The Waqf Steps In By Adamu Lawal Toro Hunger has a way of reminding a community who it is. Across northern Nigeria and beyond, Muslims are rediscovering…
Nigeria: Reformed Economy vs. Presidential Ambition
By Kayode Oladipupo Nigeria may be approaching one of the most consequential economic tests in its democratic history: Can a country sustain difficult economic reforms when an election makes reversing them politically…
Soludo’s Value Reformation Agenda:From Manual To Movement
Soludo’s Value Reformation Agenda:From Manual To Movement By Rose Oranye The Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Value Reformation, Dr. Law Mefor, on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, formally opened a three-room Value…
INEC’s Press Conference that Could Have Waited in Silence Solidarity
By  Umar Ardo, Ph.D There are moments when the machinery of state must slow to acknowledge the weight of national grief. When twenty-five souls, some of them may have been my cadets,…
We Are Not 66 Years Old Per Se,We Are 112
We Are Not 66 Years Old Per Se,We Are 112 By Abdullahi Yusuf For too long, Nigerians have, while celebrating our Independence Anniversary,been claiming that our year of Independence is the nation’s…
Pantami: The Man Who Is Running To Catch Destiny
Pantami: The Man Who Is Running To Catch Destiny By Adamu Aminu. Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami is a man in a breathless sprint. In the theological tradition he has mastered and…
Pantami’s Gombe Governorship Candidacy: Legal Position and Available Options
…A Legal Analysis by Abubakar Abdulkadir Usman, Esq. The recent judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Gombe has materially altered the legal position concerning Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s aspiration…
When the University Enters the Political Arena
By Babayola M. Toungo There are moments in the life of a democracy when an apparently ordinary political event acquires a significance far greater than the event itself. The reported endorsement of…
Kano’s Drug Abuse Crisis: Why the State Needs a Law, Not Just a Task Force
By Nura Ahmad Muhammad, Esq. If there is any issue that deserves the collective attention of the government, civil society, traditional and religious institutions, families and communities in Kano State, it is…
Global Press Freedom Under Trial: From Washington to Gaza
By Adamu S Ladan The latest confrontation between President Donald Trump and sections of the American media has raised a much bigger question than the dispute between a president and particular news…