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Monday, December 29, 2025

Opinion

December 29, 2025

Christian Genocide: Where does Nigeria go from here?

If Christian communities can no longer live safely in regions where they have lived for generations, the question before us is not merely about human rights. It is existential.

Northern Nigerian Christians
December 28, 2025

Why the CJN must end abuse of power in judicial appointments

One tweep describes what passes for judicial appointment process in Nigeria as “filiality via conjugality”.

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Olatokunbo
December 25, 2025

Azu Ishiekwene: What’s the cost of a merry Christmas?

Atiku is like a lion wearing Santa Claus’s cap and offering a gift box wrapped in garlands, swag, and tinsel. Obi and his ambition would soon be lunch.

December 22, 2025

Donald Trump’s intervention exposes actual scale of Nigerian Christian massacre

Most of the casualties occurred in the Middle Belt, the epicentre of attacks by Fulani militia.

Donald Trump and Nigerian Christians
December 21, 2025

The Supreme Court’s emergency politics

It was an odd way to phrase arguably the most cynical and gratuitous expansion of presidential power in the history of the Nigerian Supreme Court.

Nigeria Supreme Court Justices (Credit: NJC)
December 18, 2025

Ahmed’s fall, the Dangote challenge and a rentier system

The only proof that Ahmed was not removed to save the system is that he should be investigated so that he can either clear his name or face the consequences.

December 15, 2025

The denial of identity and belonging

The greatest loss a people can suffer is the loss of the right to have rights.

Killer herdsmen and razed Plateau Christians
December 14, 2025

Why state police is Nigeria’s imperative lifeline

President Tinubu’s “innocuous insertion” inviting the National Assembly to review state police laws is no artifice. It’s an overdue gauntlet thrown to lawmakers.

December 12, 2025

Soyinka’s complaint and Seyi Tinubu’s right to special protection

Moreover, the optics of Prof Soyinka’s critique, while poignant, risk conflating correlation with causation.

December 11, 2025
Sam Nda-Isaiah