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Now, nowhere is safe (2)

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2026

By Hassan GimbaThis article was first published on April 11th, 2022. Last week, we revisited the first part because its message remains as relevant today as it was when it was published. Only that it is now: “No one is safe”, not only “nowhere”, with generals being

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THE SUNDAY STEW – 16: The Three-Month Sprint (2): Vocabulary. Concepts. Metaphors

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2026

By Max Amuchie Every serious intellectual undertaking eventually reaches a threshold where it can no longer rely entirely on inherited language. It must create its own vocabulary.The three-month sprint that produced The Insecurity Triad, the Trinity of State Decay (TSD), and the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI) crossed that threshold repeatedly. New realities demanded

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Nigeria: This state is not the state

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2026

By Taiwo Adisa PhD Philosophers and political theorists have attempted to define the state through different prisms. There is the evolutionary theory, which posits that the state is a natural, gradual development spanning centuries — from family units to clans, tribes, and eventually states. The social contract theory, advanced by Thomas Hobbes and supported by […]

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Years before insecurity bombed Nigeria’s peace

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, June 19, 2026) If I walked into the ground floor of the superstore at the city centre to get my preschool child a gift, and I saw bicycles, balls, boots, dolls, push cars, rackets, etc. I wouldn’t pick a thing. Instead, I would move to the […]

NEWS

390 Killed, 202 Kidnapped, 268,787 Rights Complaints in 31 Days

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2026

….NHRC Dashboard Reveals Escalating Humanitarian and Security Crisis Across Nigeria The worsening human rights situation in Nigeria came into sharp focus in May as killings, kidnappings, attacks on schoolchildren and a surge in rights violations pushed the number of complaints received by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to a record 268,787, exposing deepening

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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 General […]