Politics & Security
A Nation Divided Editor’s Foreword: The Republic V7, N2
In a few days, Nigeria will begin a new presidential administration. Will a Tinubu presidency unite or further divide us? Our latest issue, A Nation Divided, looks at the forthcoming inauguration, the meaning of a Tinubu presidency and the roads that lie ahead. Read More...
Politics, Priorities, and Policies Nigeria’s Post-Presidential Inauguration Era and the Burden of Nation Building
A deliberate decision from the incoming administration to show magnanimity across the political divide along with a rigorous pursuit of people-centred policies will go a long way in kick starting the process of national reconciliation, leading up to nation building. All that Nigerians are asking for is a chance to witnesses a nation that works for them in their lifetime. Read More...
‘Ellu P’ Power A New Potential for Nigerian Opposition Politics
Though the Labour Party has spent much of its energies in the post-election period challenging the outcomes of the 2023 elections, the party has several unique opportunities to leverage its strengths while in the opposition. Read More...
Will the Winners Take It All? Tinubu’s Presidency and the Challenge of Peacebuilding in South East Nigeria
Nigeria has been one of the major hurdles to economic integration across West Africa, this author argues. It is one of the most inward-looking developing countries in the world, but will the next president be able to reverse this trend? Read More...
Of Borders and Economy Can Nigeria’s Next President Chart a New Africa Foreign Economic Policy?
Nigeria has been one of the major hurdles to economic integration across West Africa, this author argues. It is one of the most inward-looking developing countries in the world, but will the next president be able to reverse this trend? Read More...
Ekweremadu Goes to Jail The Latest on the Ekweremadu ‘Organ Harvesting’ Conspiracy
Following an organ harvesting scandal, Ike Ekeweremadu, Beatrice Ekweremadu and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, have become the first people convicted under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act. Read More...
‘I Don’t Think in Yoruba’ Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and the Enduring Politics of Local Languages
Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour's experience of the Lagos state election raised several questions, including: do non-fluent Yoruba people face a cultural catch-22? Are they confined to either ridicule if they speak Yoruba or to coming across as out of touch if they don't? Read More...
Beyond the Polls Was 25 February A Proxy Referendum on Nationhood?
No presidential election has ever been overturned by Nigeria’s courts, but many strongly believe that 2023 may be the exception. Beyond the winner-takes-all royal rumble that may now ensue before an electoral tribunal, there is the larger existential question that hangs over the fate of the nation. Read More...
The Many Sins of INEC How the 2023 Elections Exposed INEC’s Incompetence
During the 2023 elections, INEC had all the tools it needed to pass its own self-designed test to deliver this year’s elections credibly through technology. However, the electoral commission’s many failures have meant great losses to its credibility. Read More...
West Africa’s Slow-Onset Crisis The Evolving Nature of Violence in West Africa
West Africa has experienced evolving violence since independence, first by recording the highest share of military coup frequency in Africa between 1960 and 1989, then in the Mano River regional crisis of 1989-2003, and finally terrorism in the Lake Chad region and the Liptako-Gourma region from 2010 till date. Read More...
