Photograph Source: Stefan Miljuš – Public Domain One distant April in 1992, the Sarajevo sky was, I remember well, ominously purple. The Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram was approaching, and at the moment when the lights on the mosque near our high-rise turned on, the eerie purple sky was slashed by tracer bullets—hundreds of them….
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Sunday brushed off concerns about a possible impeachment following the Supreme Court’s ruling that favored lawmakers loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. The apex court on Friday ordered the Federal Government to withhold financial allocations to Rivers State until Governor Fubara submits…
The Yobe State Police Command has arrested no fewer than six suspects for k!lling two police officers at Kolere village in Fune Local Government Area of the state. DC Operations of the Command, DCP Abdu Abubakar Ozo, disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a routine State Security Council meeting, presided over by the state…
Image by Jon Tyson. Donald Trump’s forging of a political alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination may not be totally unexpected, but its speed and extent represent a dramatic transformation of world politics. Nothing more sharply—and crudely—signals this transformation than Trump and J.D. Vance’s public browbeating of Ukrainian…
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has demanded the immediate release of Aisha Galadima, a political associate of former Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. Galadima was detained by the Department of Security Services (DSS) for allegedly criticising the state governor, Uba Sani. She was reportedly arrested by the DSS in May…
