By Tanimu Yakubu As I have argued consistently, the protracted banditry menace has two interrelated points to bear: First, it is analytically unsound to treat northern Nigeria’s insecurity—commonly labelled “banditry”—outside the framework of radical land and tenure reform. What is described as banditry is, in fact, a low-intensity, non-stateContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu Introduction Public discourse in a serious republic must be governed by rigour, proportion, and institutional intelligence. It must not be surrendered to the seductions of outrage, nor to rhetorical constructions that, while emotionally arresting, collapse under the weight of economic scrutiny. In a countryContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu If Nigeria’s manifest destiny is grounded in history, demography, and political economy, then its realization must necessarily pass through a moment of rupture—a decisive break from the inertia of the past. That moment, however contested, is now. The bold policy actions of the current administration underContinue Reading
A Response to Growing Narratives of Economic Breakdown By Tanimu Yakubu Nigeria is not collapsing. We are confronting reality. What Nigerians are experiencing today is painful but necessary. Years of accumulated distortions are being unwound. Distress is real—but distress is not disintegration. Collapsed states do not unify exchangeContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu Prince Charles Dickson’s essay is elegant, historically evocative, and rhetorically compelling. But it ultimately rests on a familiar weakness in Nigerian political commentary: the substitution of literary analogy for institutional analysis, and sentiment for empirical evaluation. To understand Nigeria’s present, one must move beyond the poeticContinue Reading
By H.E. Yu Dunhai Balancing development with environmental protection is a major common challenge for the world today, and an eternal task for the sustainable development of human society. As the world’s largest developing country, China has not only achieved a green development miracle that has captured global attention butContinue Reading
Shared Future, Shared Journey: Building an Eco-Friendly Modernization Together By H.E. Yu Dunhai Balancing development with environmental protection is a major common challenge for the world today, and an eternal task for the sustainable development of human society. As the world’s largest developing country, China has not only achieved aContinue Reading
PRESIDENT TINUBU REAPPOINTS MOHAMMED BUBA MARWA AS NDLEA CHAIRMAN: A Tribute by — Lawal Sale — That was the trending news that filtered into the air for a deserved recognition for a job weldone by the President and C-in-C, Bola Tinubu. No doubt, Nigerians too can attest to the massiveContinue Reading
– By H.E Amb. Yu Dunhai Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was convened in Beijing. During the session, the document Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year PlanContinue Reading
A think tank group, the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has said the US President Donald Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) on the basis of jaundiced, obtrusive data provided by local and international groups with ulterior motives. In a policy statement signedContinue Reading
