Politics & Security

Big Dreams and Grand Ambitions Nigeria’s Vision 2020—How far?

Onyenekenwa EnehMarch 23, 2020

The target year, 2020, is here and it is worth asking how much of Vision 2020 has been actualized. How have Nigeria’s development indicators compared with those of advanced countries, the first 20 of which Nigeria had aspired to join by 2020?

February/March 2020

The ‘Lion of Africa’ with Cat Claws Nigeria’s Image Problem

Fife OgundeMarch 20, 2020

After 60 years of independence, Nigeria has failed to establish significant political leverage on the global scene and is not the African superpower many tout it to be.

February/March 2020

This photo is for our piece on The Roots of Violence, Anglophones in Cameroon

The Roots of Violence Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis

P.J. KponyoMarch 2, 2020

As Anglophones became increasingly associated with the opposition, the discrimination they faced as a linguistic minority intensified over the ensuing decades.

February/March 2020

This photo is for our piece on Moving Beyond the Semantics, The Biafran Genocide Claim

Moving beyond Semantics Examining the ‘Biafran Genocide’ Claim

Amarachi IhekeFebruary 21, 2020

Having accomplished a plethora of historical firsts, observations from the Nigeria-Biafra conflict can act as important references to better understand the evolving dynamics of warfare.

February/March 2020

This image is for our piece on Boko Haram

Beyond the War Nigeria’s Approach to Deradicalizing Ex-Boko Haram Combatants

Olajumoke AyandeleJanuary 27, 2020

OPSC will live beyond the war being waged against Boko Haram. But such a program to reintegrate former insurgents must also acknowledge the victims and communities most affected by the insurgency.

December 19/January 20

This photo is for our essay on the right to dissent

The Right to Dissent Citizen Freedoms and Nigeria's Story of Permanent Unease

Tosin OsasonaJanuary 22, 2020

What are the permissible boundaries for intelligence and policing actors in a democracy? And who defines the limit of freedom of expression in a democracy?

December 19/January 20

This photo is for our piece on Nigeria's unchecked population growth.

A Disaster Waiting to Happen? Nigeria’s Unchecked Population Growth

Barakat AkinsikuNovember 22, 2019

A nation’s wealth are its people; but only if they are productively harnessed and provided with the sufficient tools and necessities of life.

October/November 2019

This image is for our piece titled 'Poet, in the Time of Buhari'

Poet in the Time of Buhari Nigeria at 59

Moyosore OrimoloyeOctober 1, 2019

The country is burning, both in dream and in wakefulness. To which part of the flames must he, the firefighter, turn his hose?

October/November 2019

This photo is for our piece on the nigerianization of crimes in South Africa.

Phobia or Scapegoatism? The Nigerianization of Crimes in South Africa

Hakeem OnapajoSeptember 20, 2019

The rivalry between South Africa and Nigeria has affected the relationship between citizens of both countries to such an extent that they see themselves as being in a perpetual competition.

August/September 2019

This photo is for our piece on Nigeria's Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Who’s Afraid of Saving Money? The Political Economy of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund

Daniel OlikaSeptember 16, 2019

Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund has the important objective of addressing critical issues in relation to the Nigerian economy and is, perhaps, the most important fiscal initiative from the Nigerian federal government in the last decade.

August/September 2019