THE sun was just beginning to set over the small village of Kakadu, a quiet settlement perched at the point where the three old Nigerian regions kissed each other. It was one of the few places where ...

Paramilitary groups have intensified an offensive on a crucial region bordering Darfur, prompting fears of another massacre.

In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka tried to stop the country’s Biafra war, in which Nigeria’s Igbo people responded to violence by seceding from the rest of the country. They proclaimed a new ...

Exploring the structural inhibitions to military intervention in Nigeria. Learn why fragmentation and civil-military ...

First, Nigeria must strengthen security and respond to early warnings. The government should immediately implement a ...

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday flagged off the 2026 Armed Forces and Remembrance Day emblem at the presidential Villa, ...

President Bola Tinubu nominated Nigeria's former top general to replace the defence minister, who resigned amid a surge in mass kidnappings and Islamist attacks in the north that has led the president ...

Following the declaration of Biafra as a sovereign state by Ojukwu on May 30, 1967 and the outbreak of the civil war on July 6, 1967, Enugu was named capital of the seceding nation. The rebel capital ...

Umunne m, I write to you today not in anger, but with a mind sharpened against self-deception. This is neither a letter of ...

As I observed the unfolding tragedy of what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has now become, a quiet sadness mingled with a ...

The confrontations around the 2023 Lagos governorship election, 2022 and 2025 JAMB glitches, the recent renaming of streets in Lagos, and the controversies over demolitions in Oworonshoki and Ikota in ...

More than 300 schoolboys are kidnapped from their school in the town of Kankara, in north-west Nigeria, by a criminal gang.