If Nigerian politics were a contact sport (and let’s be honest, it often is), Nyesom Wike would not just be playing—he’d be refereeing, commentating, and occasionally threatening to send the spectators off the pitch. Born on December 13, 1967, in Rumuepirikom, Rivers State, Wike has risen from local government chairman to Minister of the Federal …
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In real time, the United States government is bombing schools. Not accidentally. Systematically. It is providing open political cover for what serious legal scholars are calling genocide. It has deliberately destroyed civilian infrastructure across Iran with the kind of precision that requires planning, targeting committees and signed orders. It is seizing oil tankers on international …
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Nigeria’s security architecture has long displayed a quiet but consistent pattern: senior officers of the Nigerian Army being redeployed to head entirely different arms of the state’s coercive machinery. It is a peculiarly Nigerian institutional habit—part pragmatism, part centralisation instinct, and part elite trust network. At first glance, it raises eyebrows. Why should a career …
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