cannot effectively maintain security in a sprawling, ethnocultural, federal polity like Nigeria. Instructively, under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Northern and Southern ...

More importantly, it’s a deep disservice to the American people. We shouldn’t be cutting Social Security services and threatening Americans’ benefits — we should be making the program ...

According to him, Nigeria’s highly centralised security structure is overstretched and has proven ineffective in addressing threats at the grassroots level. Hashim also highlighted the lack of ...

The foreign ministers of Nigeria and Niger held talks Wednesday on cross-border security, terrorism and economic cooperation, despite tensions between the two neighbours since the July 2023 coup ...

Okoye revealed that the joint security operation—comprising the Nigeria Police, Military, NSCDC, DSS, FRSC, NDLEA, and local vigilante groups—has undertaken a comprehensive security exercise ...

Instead, such changes must be made either online or in-person at a Social Security office. Second, the agency has walked back on plans to reduce over-the-phone services for handling claims.

It comes after Nigeria this month renewed calls for the release of Niger’s deposed president Mohamed Bazoum, who is being held at the presidential palace in Niamey in strict detention.