Why true wellness demands feminism, by Tochi Okafor, In the same month we celebrated the global progress of women, the Nigerian woman took a visceral hit. The harrowing footage from the Ozoro festival in Delta State acted as a grim “return to reality”—a jagged reminder that for the Nigerian woman, freedom is often not an inherent right, […]

Beyond reaction: Rethinking security in Nigeria, by Dakuku Peterside, On the evening of March 16, 2026, Maiduguri was once again forced to confront a familiar horror. Coordinated suicide bombings struck the Monday Market axis, the post office corridor, the entrance to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and the Kaleri area, killing and injuring ordinary people […]

Victims, twice, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies”– African proverb In the last four weeks we have witnessed the highest upsurge of organized violence in our country. Even for a nation that has lived with endemic violence for the last 14 years (not counting the violence […]

Ozoro, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, A long time ago, there was an annual festival in a community in Ekiti. Its purpose was to highlight anti-social behaviour and to serve as some form of accountability mechanism. The young people would dance around the community and visit homes of ‘offenders’, those who had stolen farm produce, cheated their […]