Few confirmed details have emerged about the Pentagon’s attacks – launching 16 GPS-guided missiles from MQ-9 Reaper drones – on claimed jihadist camps near Jabo in Sokoto State...

Recent history gave Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu every reason to stop the attempted putsch in neighbouring Benin on 7 December. Having cut his political teeth campaigning against...

It is now clear that the thwarted coup in Cotonou was much more violent than first reported and determinedly targeted Benin’s President Patrice Talon and the most senior...

In early November, officers in the Department of State Services received intelligence about a planned abduction at Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School (GGCSS) in Maga, Kebbi State. They...

Two resonant images sum up the decline and fall of multi-party politics in Nigeria. The first is of the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at its...

With security collapsing across the Sahel and imperilling West Africa, Nigeria is pushing to rebuild military partnerships with the ruling juntas in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali –...

Abuja’s Debt Management Office ploughed on with a US$2.25 billion Eurobond launch on 5 November, despite market ructions triggered by United States President Donald Trump’s threats of military...