Concern over Nigeria’s Boko Haram homeless returns
Nigeria is encouraging thousands of people displaced by Boko Haram violence to return home, insisting they can do so in safety as troops wind up operations against the jihadists. Just…
Remembering Fasih Bokhari
If they still made men like that, one would certainly want to see more like the later Admiral (r) Fasih Bokhari. The former naval chief lost his battle against cancer…
US seeks to approve attack aircraft for Nigeria in Boko Haram fight
The US administration is seeking to approve a sale of as many as 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria to aid its battle against the extremist group…
Boko Haram
There was a time, even in the Muhammadu Buhari era, when Boko Haram was truly ruthless. The assumption of presidential power by the retired military officer and former dictator looked…
Military operations force Boko Haram back to urban warfare: experts
Bomb attacks in Nigerian towns and cities look likely to increase in the run-up to forthcoming elections, despite the military claiming increasing successes against Boko Haram in captured territory. At…
Malala, Boko Haram and Gaza
I went to pick up my three-year-old from her summer school for the first time. She is yet to begin kindergarten but her mother decided to put her in a…
The maleficent
Empathy and compassion are human defining attributes yet no other living being remains ever-seduced by the primal urge of enslaving one of its own. We are fortunate indeed to have…
Running in Boston
Careful at Heartbreak Hill – that's what you're likely to be told if you ask an experienced international marathoner, especially an American. That’s what happened to me when I told…
The great incumbent replacement
Political scientists are obsessed with trying to understand the socio-political world we live in. Oftentimes, they emulate natural scientists, occupied with finding common patterns in seemingly unrelated phenomena. Such generalisations…
Fly on Great Wall
AS our great neighbour becomes greater by the day, we are moving from being ‘another brick in the wall’ to nothing more than a fly on the wall — the…
