Reporting News and opinions
Another grim chapter has unfolded in the heart of Nigeria, and once again, the state’s apparatus is rushing to manage public relations rather than uncover systemic accountability.
Passports are supposed to be the great equalizers of national identity. If two people carry the green-backed book stamped with the Nigerian coat of arms, the constitution insists they share the exact same claim to fundamental dignity and justice. But citizenship, like roaming data on a prepaid SIM, appears to depend entirely on which borders your passport happens to cross.
The UN’s top disarmament official expressed regret that weapons continued to fuel violence in communities long after wars ended, causing devastation across once peaceful communities.
If you could pick any fictional animal to be your lifelong companion (like a Pokémon or fantasy pet), what would it be? My childhood television fantasy pet
Andy Burnham did not inherit a government so much as a stage set. After years of mayoral apprenticeship in Greater Manchester, he arrived in Downing Street with a ready-made philosophy called “Manchesterism” and a clear preference for the photographable over the structural. The high-street crackdown is not an aberration. It is the strategy in miniature.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 