The climate crisis is often presented as an environmental problem requiring technological solutions, financial commitments and international cooperation. But this framing overlooks a fundamental truth: the climate crisis is also a crisis of power. It is rooted in an economic and political system that treats nature as an endless resource for exploitation and women’s labour as an inexhaustible source of unpaid care. These are not separate injustices. They are interconnected forms of extraction that sustain an economic model built on accumulation, inequality and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. As governments gather in Antalya, Türkiye, for…
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This article was first published in November 2021 on Governor Mai Mala Buni’s 54th birthday. No doubt the state, friends and well-wishers are preparing to celebrate his 59th birthday in a few days, on the 19th of this month. However, since this may be the last time Governor Buni will celebrate his birthday as the Chief Executive of Yobe State, after a successful two-term tenure, it is worth revisiting the remarkable leadership of a governor who not only steered Yobe State out of years of insecurity and uncertainty but also recorded significant achievements in education, healthcare, youth and women empowerment,…
Justice Peter Lifu’s judgement yesterday, for whatever it is worth, is a figment of his imagination. As a lawyer, I know that I shouldn’t address his lordship this way, but I think he deserves it, even more. I honestly don’t know how that man still sits on the revered seat as a judge after the Court of Appeal had described him as “unfit for the bench” and after having called his judgement in the same case “judicial rascality.” It appears to me that Justice Lifu is happy doing things that work against the machinery of our justice system. The law…
Yesterday, the Federal High Court in Abuja sacked the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) under former Senate President David Mark and voided the party’s presidential ticket held by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Judge Peter Lifu said the “Mark-led Caretaker Committee, which conducted the party’s presidential primary that produced Atiku Abubakar as its flag bearer,” is illegal. He dismissed the entire national officers of the party, including National Secretary Rauf Aregbesola, alongside all the candidates the party presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2027 elections. This means the ADC, the major challenger to the…
My dear children, and all young Nigerians who are conscious of their faith, their future and their responsibilities before Allah, There is something I want you to understand very early in life, preferably before the circumstances of life put you in a position where learning it becomes painfully expensive. Never allow yourself to become the instrument of another human being’s ambition, struggle, personal interest or unfinished battles, no matter how noble the reasons presented to you may sound. Never lead a struggle for another human being at the expense of your own peace, future, safety, dignity and relationship with Allah.…
Construction is progressing on a multi-storey Emergency Trauma Department at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano, Nigeria, in a development expected to strengthen the hospital’s capacity to provide specialised emergency and life-saving services. The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe, said the multi-billion-naira facility would be fully equipped upon completion to provide critical life support and emergency care for trauma patients. A teaching hospital of AKTH’s standing deserves advanced and reliable medical equipment capable of managing critical injuries, multiple trauma cases and acute medical emergencies. Modern emergency and trauma centres require a wide range…
Thirteen years after the power sector was sold, most Nigerians still plan their day around NEPA. The generator is still the real utility. The diesel bill is still the real tariff. At the Lagos Country Club Business Forum 3.0, Prof Barth Nnaji, founder of Geometric Power and a former Minister of Power, explained why. As reported by ThisDay, he listed infrastructure deficits, revenue collection losses, liquidity crises and bottlenecks across the value chain. But he put one reason above the rest. Government promised investors cost-reflective tariffs, then refused to allow them. That is the whole story in one sentence. Everything…
This is the concluding part of this article, originally published in December 2021. I feel compelled to republish it now because the issues it raises about the rule of law, insecurity, and the growing fear among ordinary Nigerians remain as relevant today as they were when it was first written. Its message serves as a timely reminder of the urgent responsibility to protect citizens, uphold justice, strengthen the rule of law, and restore lasting peace and security across the country. Many patriots concerned with our rapid nose-diving in morals and abandonment of the rule of law believe that the British…
In celebrating the 20th Sultan of Sokoto’s 20 years of transformative leadership of the Ummah, Celebrating Islam, Peacebuilding, National and Global Human Development.
Last Saturday, I reviewed a book presented at a festschrift organised by CITAD in honour of my good friend, Ibrahim Muazzam. It was in recognition of his fifty years of scholarship, research, documentation, teaching, writing and reflections about life, society and human organisation. If everybody calls him Malam, it is because that is what he is: a teacher. I was particularly glad to notice many articles published over the past few weeks by many of his former students thanking him for the intellectual guidance and inspiration he gave them as their Malam. It is appropriate that the focus of the…