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Where Was James Bond While the Fifth Column Was Busy Selling the Family Silver? By Lawson Akhigbe

From the moment Sean Connery first uttered “Bond, James Bond” in *Dr. No*, right through Daniel Craig’s final, rather damp exit in *No Time to Die*, I, like millions of other loyal subjects, laboured under a charming delusion. I believed the United Kingdom possessed impregnable security. MI5, MI6, the whole alphabet soup of spooks with licences to kill, gadgets that could turn a fountain pen into a nuclear deterrent, and a national instinct for spotting a wrong ’un at fifty paces. We had the Queen, the navy, and 007.

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When Cartels Outpace Courts: What the Ozubulu Massacre Reveals About Nigeria’s Creaking Justice System by Lawson Akhigbe

On the morning of August 6, 2017, gunmen stormed St. Philip’s Catholic Church in Ozubulu, Anambra State. When the gunfire ceased, at least a dozen worshippers lay dead on the pews, including the elderly father of the intended target.

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Nigerian: Country Policy and Information notes Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications from Nigeria

Country Policy and Information Notes (CPIN) for Nigeria are official guidance documents published by the UK Home Office and used by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) caseworkers, decision-makers, and immigration judges to assess protection (asylum) and human rights claims from Nigerian nationals.

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Tinubu’s extended absence by Punch Editorial Board

NIGERIA has a disturbing habit of allowing those in power to treat constitutional restraints as inconveniences rather than obligations. Once again, the country is confronted with questions over presidential absence, constitutional compliance and the willingness of its institutions to hold the powerful to account.

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