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Now, nowhere is safe (1)

Daily Dispatch June 14, 2026

By Hassan Gimba The Arbiter This article was first published on the 4th of April, 2022. It is as relevant today as it was then. Only that it is now: No one is safe, not only nowhere. What with Generals being killed on the roads (read General Alkali), abducted from their fortified homes (read

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THE SUNDAY STEW: The Three-Month Sprint (1): Philosophical Architecture of an Intellectual Trilogy of State Decay

Daily Dispatch June 14, 2026

By Max Amuchie Last week on The Sunday Stew, we unveiled the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI), a quantitative metric I developed as an extension of the Trinity of State Decay. It is meant to be a mathematical instrument for measuring the degree of separation between a state’s juridical sovereignty and its lived reality. I had […]

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Borno’s Askira-Uba school children: The abduction Nigeria chose to ignore 

Daily Dispatch June 10, 2026

By Zainab Suleiman Okino In a conversation on the now-ubiquitous insecurity involving the abduction of schoolchildren, I asked an acquaintance what she knew about the abduction of 42 pupils from Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Mussa, Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, by alleged Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists. She told me outright she had […]

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Troops Rescue 360 Abducted Civilians in Borno, Two Infants Die During Operation

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2026

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai, working alongside Special Operations Forces, have rescued 360 civilians, mostly women and children, who were abducted by terrorists from Ngoshe community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. Military sources disclosed that the rescue was achieved through a coordinated special operation conducted on June 6 across several fronts in

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​The Sunday Stew: The Mirage, the Shadow and the Resurrection: Here comes the Decoupling Sovereignty Index

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2026

By Max Amuchie There is a question that every serious student of state decay eventually confronts, and that existing instruments only partially answer: not whether a state is fragile, but how far the separation between formal authority and effective authority has progressed. The Fragile States Index measures fragility. Governance indicators measure institutional

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Troops In Kogi Crush Kidnappers’ Escape Plan, Rescue 23 Victims

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2026

Troops of the 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, have rescued 23 kidnapped passengers following a swift counter-kidnapping operation along the Ayegunle–Bunu Road in Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State. The operation was launched in the early hours of Sunday, June 1, 2026, after suspected bandits reportedly barricaded the highway and abducted several passengers