Self Interest

What’s something most people don’t understand? Fake Harriet Tubman quote but important. "I freed a thousand slaves, and I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves" Voters amplified in the US, UK and Nigeria fail to recognise their self interests while clearly voting to impoverish themselves hence the above …

Tinubu’s Abacha Tactics Against Opposition By Farooq A. Kperogi

Although structural, political, and economic conditions appear to constrain any credibly concerted impediment to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 reelection chances, at least from my admittedly imperfect reading of the auguries, Tinubu still seems so insecure that he is borrowing a leaf from former Head of State Sani Abacha, his arch enemy, to annihilate the …

When the State Pays the Gunman: From the Niger Delta to the Forests of the North by Lawson Akhigbe

There is a tragic through-line in Nigeria’s modern security history: when the gun speaks loudly enough, the treasury eventually listens. In the early 2000s, the creeks of the Niger Delta became theatres of an armed civil uprising. Oil pipelines were vandalised with industrial efficiency. Expatriate oil workers and local contractors were kidnapped as bargaining chips. …