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Nigeria’s National Grid Collapse Is Not an Accident — It Is a Policy Failure

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On January 23, 2026, Nigeria’s national electricity grid collapsed once again, plunging millions of homes, hospitals, factories, and offices into darkness. By midday, power generation had fallen from nearly 4,000 megawatts to almost zero, marking yet another nationwide blackout in a country where electricity failure has become routine. Official statements described the incident as a […]

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What Putin’s $1bn Pledge Means for Trump’s Peace Board and the Future of Conflict Mediation

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Moscow’s readiness to commit $1 billion to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace,” many observers dismissed it as yet another headline in the theatre of great-power diplomacy. It is more than that. The pledge, drawn from frozen Russian assets and attached to conditions linked to a possible

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The UN at the Brink: America First, Rising Revisionism, and the Return of Power Politics

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The League of Nations did not disintegrate overnight. It decayed as major powers abandoned collective security and returned to the raw calculus of coercion. The United Nations, built in 1945 to correct that failure, appeared more resilient. It survived ideological confrontation during the Cold War, enabled decolonization, and furnished global governance with humanitarian and development

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Kurmin Wali Abductions: Inside the Church Attacks That Exposed Nigeria’s Deepening Security Breakdown

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Kurmin Wali, Kajuru LGA | Kaduna State The mass abduction of worshippers from three churches in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has once again laid bare the scale, complexity, and human cost of Nigeria’s worsening security crisis — one marked not only by violence, but by official confusion, delayed responses,

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The Opposition’s Stalemate: Atiku and the Politics of 2027

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By Olukunle Adewumi As Nigeria edges toward the 2027 general election, the political atmosphere is already shifting — quietly, but unmistakably. Defections, realignments, and early coalition talks suggest a familiar pattern, which could become one of the most consequential elections since 2015. Long before voters are engaged, elites begin positioning for advantage. At the center

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AfCFTA: Africa’s Strategic Imperative for Economic Sovereignty and Inclusive Development

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As global economic fault lines widen, Africa faces a pivotal moment. Long relegated to the margins of global value chains—exporting raw materials and importing finished goods—African economies have endured a trade pattern heavily skewed in favour of the Global North. This pattern has not only limited economic diversification but has also curtailed job creation, deepened

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Global South at the Crossroads: Breaking Free from Neo-Imperial Structures

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For more than half a century, the nations once labeled the Third World have been told a reassuring story: integrate into global markets, welcome foreign capital, liberalize trade, and prosperity will follow. Yet from Lagos to La Paz, from Dhaka to Lusaka, the lived reality has been stubbornly different. Growth arrives, but sovereignty recedes; exports

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The Quiet Fall of the Throne: How the Modern State Unseated Africa’s Traditional Authority

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By the middle of the twentieth century, Africa’s political landscape appeared to change overnight. New flags were raised, constitutions drafted, and presidents sworn in. Less visible, yet far more profound, was another revolution—the gradual dethronement of traditional authority. Across the continent, kings, chiefs, and councils of elders who had governed communities for centuries found themselves

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Nigeria’s Youth Drug Abuse Crisis: How It Begins, Why It Persists, and What It Means for the Nation

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Asma’u Uba Muhammad Drug abuse among Nigerian youths has, over the past decade, become a significant and growing public health and social challenge. What was once dismissed as isolated experimentation has grown into a widespread crisis affecting individuals, families, communities, and national development. Understanding how young people become involved in substance abuse—and why the problem

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