NUDGING A NATION TO ACT: POTUS challenges our Hope Agenda. By M K ILYASU Basic Insights Religious protection succeeds when framed as civilian protection. This is to avoid sectarian bias and maintains legitimacy under international law. Multilateral legitimacy matters. UN authorization or regional consensus strengthens intervention credibility and post-conflict reconstruction. Local capacity is decisive….
DEFIANTS IN DEFENCE OF DEFIANCE: “In Lie the Truth”. By M K ILYASU Let me start by saying that for more than a decade, Nigeria has been caught up in this “Great Debate” over profound issues on National Security. The range of debate has varied, perhaps even unique in several respects. It has been sustained…
Insecurity: Again, how did we get to this pass? (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE The roots of the current crisis stretch deep into the past. To truly discern these origins, one must look all the way back to the Justice Alexander Ovie Aniagolu Report on the Maitatsine Riots in Kano (1981), whose findings clearly harbinger the…
The Tragedy of a General’s Death and the Cost of Reckless Reporting By Olaitan Adesina With Brigadier General Musa Uba’s death, Nigeria did not just lose a senior military officer; we lost a man whose life might have been saved had some individuals remembered that national security is not a plaything for newsroom ratings or…
WHEN POWER MET PROTOCOL: THE WIKE–YERIMA ENCOUNTER By Olaitan Adesina In Nigeria, public drama is both a coping mechanism and a spectator sport, and power often feels the need to perform. It rarely walks in quietly. It prefers a convoy, a siren, and a camera crew. So when Nyesom Wike, Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal…
WIKE AND YERIMA: BETWEEN EMOTION AND RATIONALITY Things are happening these days at a frenetic pace such that the only constraint a writer may encounter is- which one should I comment on and which should I overlook? To be sure, no issue of importance, at least to societal health, should be glossed over, by well-…
The Price Tag on Patriotism: America’s “Rescue Missions” and Nigeria’s New Drama By Olaitan Adesina If there’s one thing Americans never do, it’s charity without a receipt. Every “rescue mission,” every “democracy promotion,” and every “humanitarian intervention” usually comes wrapped in a bill. And no one understands that better than Donald J. Trump, the self-proclaimed…
ABSENCE OF AMBASSADORS IN OUR DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS BY M K ILYASU There is so much talk on PBAT reluctance to appoint Ambassadors, which some equate with “Failure on Foreign Policy Strategy”. Is that so simple a matter that can be handled sine qua non to his non appearances on international forums? Come on people, let’s…
Tinubu and the significance of yesterday (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE The great British Rock Band, ‘The Beatles’, eulogized ‘Yesterday’ in one of its most memorable hit songs. In the lyrics of the song, the past is framed by the line, “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,” culminating in a definitive “longing for yesterday.”…
Ekiti, Oct 27: Date with destiny! By abiodun KOMOLAFE The allegations of contrived mayhem in the State of Ekiti are an acknowledgement that desperation has taken root in the quest to gain entrance into Oke Ayoba. This is ominous, but it also reveals the infantile elements in Nigeria’s political paradox, where one addresses a daunting…
