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Now, no one, nowhere is safe (3)

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2026

By Hassan GimbaThis is the concluding part of this write-up, originally published on April 25, 2022. Following the publication of parts one and two over the past two weeks, I have revisited this article because its message remains as relevant and timely today as it was when it was first

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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 killed on the roads (read General Alkali), abducted […]

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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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UN Envoy Blasts Nigeria’s Security Collapse, Warns Impunity Fuelling Cycle of Violence, Rights Breakdown

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2026

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Nazila Ghanea, has delivered one of the starkest international assessments yet of Nigeria’s security situation, warning that entrenched impunity and collapsing accountability systems are fuelling a self-perpetuating cycle of violence across the country. Speaking at the end of an 11-day official visit,

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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 […]