Crime Facts

FFK Needless Outburst: This Is No Time To Keep Quiet

By Habib Aruna The reprehensible and condemnable verbal assault of former Minister, Femi Fani Kayode on Eyo Charles, a reporter with the Daily Trust brought to fore the ever rancorous relationship between the media and our politicians. The average Nigerian politician is rapacious and capricious (not all of them though) and are easily carried away […]

Case Against Blasphemy In Nigeria By Leo Igwe

Nigeria’s blasphemy laws have been of focus locally, nationally and internationally following the arrest and detention of Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala, the sentencing to death of a Muslim singer, and the imprisonment of a 13- year-old boy for blasphemy in Kano State in Northern Nigeria. It would appear that Muslim theocrats – within the police […]

Almajiri: What happened on the road to heaven?

By Matthew Hassan Kukah Yes, you are right, the title for his article draws inspiration from Phil Collins’ song titled, “What Happened On the Way To Heaven?” The almajiri and his spiritual father, the mallam, are now the poster persons of all that is negative in the face of Islam in northern Nigeria. The life […]

Five Years After: Is Buhari really on top of his brief?

By Muazu Jibril Muazu The declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the 2015 presidential polls in what was widely accepted as free, fair and credible election, is a situation of interest to history and a test of evocative power play, as well as a understanding of the political terrain that Nigeria has […]

Now, its clearer; Nigeria hates its women!

By Chiamaka Okafor Nigeria still hates its women. That sounds ridiculous, I know. Sadly, it is as true as the fact that we were all conceived by the coming together of a sperm and an egg. Walk with me. Nigeria still hates its women. It is sixty years of existing as a nation through thick […]

Biafra: 50 years after and the crisis of Igbo leadership

By Osmund Agbo The year was 1970 and the day was January 15. On that date in history, Major-General Phillip Efiong, Biafra’s chief of general staff and interim head of state announced the end of the two-and-a-half year armed conflict that took the lives of an estimated two million human beings. Though General Gowon had […]