Transnational Security Challenges
This article, extracted from Prospects, (Feb 28th, 2020) touches on two of the most complicated or delicate issues in global health governance. By its original title – “The Unpalatable... Read more
Nigeria’s insecurity challenges are widening with the confirmation of COVID-19 in the country by Federal health authorities. Lagos State where the first victim was identified appeared not to... Read more
The alarm bells are ringing again to the effect that West African countries combating transnational terrorism face a terrorism threat unique to the region in contrast to other parts of the w... Read more
The double-edged nature of exposing corruption is manifesting at the global level as a World Bank report on corruption among elite of neediest countries is attracting its own controversy. In... Read more
The panoptic practice of producing ‘good’ citizens through surveillance but by which great powers have brought the entire world within the panoptic radius of state power has suffered a setba... Read more
It must be unique to Nigeria for a disease that was the subject of front page headlines since January 29th, 2020, as ravaging a part of Benue State to still be a strange disease unknown to... Read more
Jigawa State has always had a volatile story of unregulated movement of herders. It came to a climax in 1995/6 when two District Heads lost their position after an inquiry by the military re... Read more
The military authorities are after Abuja based Daily Trust again, a year after invading its headquarters. But, this time, it is Mr. Olatunji Omirin, the Borno State Correspondent of the news... Read more
They are hard to get sort of pictures which reveal the degree of tension but also the massive nature of response of the Chinese State to the medical emergency. According to the intro... Read more
All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ Against Corruption in Nigeria?
The 2019 global corruption perception index is out and, in the case of Nigeria, all the coalitions, propaganda, discourses, convictions and threats directed at corruption have not amounted t... Read more
