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Statement by Terry Waya CFR on the Benue Crisis

Nigeria, June 18 -- This is a very painful time for all of us. What's happening in Benue right now is not just a news headline. It's the reality of people waking up to fear, mothers burying children,... Read More


Call It What It Is, A Massacre, Not a Conflict

Nigeria, June 16 -- They are killing us, and this is what the Presidency is saying? With due respect, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, this press release is an insult. It fails to match even a fraction of the horro... Read More


Tinubu Didn't Build the ICC So Why Is It Now Named After Him?

Nigeria, June 15 -- When power rewrites memory and silence often masquerades as dignity, we must ask the question no one dares to voice aloud. President Tinubu renovated the ICC and renamed it after ... Read More


Gov. Alia, What Is Really Causing Insecurity in Benue?

Nigeria, June 8 -- When your people are dying, you don't trade their blood for political correctness. You don't distort their reality for diplomatic ease. And you certainly don't go on national televi... Read More


The Gentle Exit of Giants

Nigeria, June 8 -- In a single week, the earth grew quieter as three of Nigeria's towering figures answered the inevitable call. Prof Jibrin Aminu, Justice Mohammed Uwais, and Sir Mike Ejeagha,men who... Read More


When Sodom Sues for Sainthood.The Fall of Sean 'Diddy' Combs

Nigeria, June 6 -- In the annals of modern celebrity culture, few figures have loomed and rang with the thunder of influence and allure quite like Sean "Diddy" Combs. He was a cultural architect, bend... Read More


How Nigeria Learned to Worship the Bare Minimum

Nigeria, June 4 -- In Nigeria, to be average is to be celebrated. To be mediocre is to be a messiah. A civil servant arrives at 11 a.m. and leaves by 2 and is hailed for "trying." A lecturer returns s... Read More


Medicine After Death, Nigeria's Eye Service Syndrome

Nigeria, June 3 -- Too many boots on the ground, too late. Forty-seven lives extinguished in Naka, and suddenly the government remembers the town exists. The security forces arrive, not to prevent blo... Read More


The Land Is Crying, and No One Is Listening

Nigeria, May 31 -- A child was found this morning in the grass, her school shoes gone, her face turned to the sun. Her name is not on any register anymore. She will not attend class again. Her family ... Read More


What Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan's Ordeal Says About Us All

Nigeria, May 30 -- In a country where absurdity now wears a tailored suit and justice sits awkwardly at the table of power, it is no longer shocking, just exhausting. Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan, ... Read More