Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja in July 2022.
Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images
Once in office, the new president will face a myriad of challenges, chief of which is insecurity.
Carnegie Mellon University’s denouncing of Uju Anya’s tweet about the Queen shows that universities need to do much more the support racialized faculty.
(Shutterstock)
Reaction to criticism of the monarchy shows that universities need to do much more to support racialized faculty and staff.
Nigeria’s cultural diversity can enhance democracy.
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
The fear of domination of one ethnic group or section by another has persistently undermined efforts at democratic consolidation in Nigeria.
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a global icon with local roots.
Photo by Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images
The former secretary-general of the Commonwealth represents the true essence of a public intellectual and leader; his sense of duty defines his legacy.
Is President Muhammadu Buhari committed to the genuine federalisation of the Nigerian polity?
Getty Images
Nigeria’s current political problems are simply too daunting to embark on an honest journey to true federalism at this stage.
History is better taught to young, impressionable minds from an early age.
Hannibal Hanschke/picture alliance via Getty Images
Nigeria should stop showing contempt for history as a subject, profession or topic of discussion.
Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The government must take some of the blame for the radicalisation of non-state actors like the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The feeling of desertion by Nigeria’s federal government has not left the region that was defined as Biafra during the country’s civil war.
Stefano Montesi - Corbis/Getty Images
Until the conditions that led to the Nigeria-Biafra war are resolved, the debate on the viability of one Nigeria will continue to arise.
Attacks on police officers have dire consequences for the security and wellbeing of Nigerians.
Nacer Tale/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Attacks on police officers and their stations can damage police legitimacy in Nigeria
Commemoration rituals are superficial tools to deal with the injustices of the Nigerian-Biafran war.
Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The crisis of statehood and citizenship confronting Nigeria can only be tackled by committed work around political justice.
Shutterstock
Many things have to change for Nigeria’s federal system to work and accommodate its diverse citizens’ interests
A freedom march for Biafra held to mark the anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in 1967 that sparked a brutal 30-month civil war in Nigeria.
Stefano Montesi - Corbis/Getty Images
Fifty years after the Biafran civil war in Nigeria, the efforts of secessionist diplomats have recently come to light through the decryption of telexes sent from Portugal to Biafra during the war.
Banners and candles are displayed during a ceremony commemorating the Biafran War
Sia Kambou/AFP via Getty Images
Fifty years after the Biafran war, the massacre in Asaba in the south-south region of Nigeria is still a highly sensitive issue.
Biafran refugees flee federal Nigerian troops on a road near Ogbaku, Nigeria in this 1968 photo. Between one and three million people are estimated to have died.
(AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)
Nigerian poets and novelists have compared the Igbo massacres in the 60s to the Holocaust as a way to drive international attention to the atrocities.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari heads to the White House.
EPA/Frank Augstein
It’s inconceivable that military prowess can offer long-term solutions to Nigeria’s deep-rooted institutional problems.
The polio vaccination campaign in Nigeria is being hampered.
Flickr/Center for Disease Control
Social media rumours are putting Nigeria’s vaccination campaigns at risk.
Women carry goods across a makeshift bridge in the Ilaje slum in Lagos. Widening inequality is fuelling tensions across Nigeria.
Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly
Protests are raising tensions in Africa’s most populous country, with agitators and federal troops clashing on the streets. But is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?
Muhammadu Buhari and his with vice president, Yemi Osibajo, must fix the economy if they want security.
EPA/STR
Fixing unemployment, poverty and illiteracy will be at the top of the new president’s to-do list. Then there’s Boko Haram.