Is the Nigeria Police anti-kidnapping operation code-named ‘Tiger Base’ and run by the Imo State Command a torture chamber more than a crime combating operation? This is the question Imo Sta... Read more
Old stories fill our lives with dignity Myth has staged a big comeback as a theme in both radical/critical as well as status quo social science. This piece speaks to that although the... Read more
Scientists thought it didn’t matter – but now we’re learning more By Prof Jenny Graves Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other... Read more
The Guardian (UK) calls this “a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work”. That cannot be far from the truth as Toni Morrison sets the literary world on fire again. Serpel... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja I am sure there will still be more of it, but since the charge is the same each time and since my response is also the same, it might be time to put this out, partly in defer... Read more
By Prof Chima Anyadike A few hours after news broke of the death of Professor Biodun Jeyifo on the morning of 11 February 2026, a friend who is a former vice‑chancellor of Federal University... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Decades before his death January 11th, 2026, Prof Biodun Jeyifo had ceased to teach in Nigeria. But a knowledge producer is inherently a global supplier, irrespective of loca... Read more
By Chris Kwaja (Ph.D) At the ongoing 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Vice President Kashim Shettim... Read more
The big news in town this week would surely be Prof Biodun Jeyifo joining his ancestors. It is comparable to the fall of an Iroko in the forest. He was a particularly productive farmer in cr... Read more
In the piece below, reproduced from Africa-Is-A-Country, the author and Abuja based Socialist activist, Omole Ibukun, draws on popular security alternatives within and outside Africa to put... Read more
