Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country
From his tiny sanctum in London, the founder of WikiLeaks has interfered with the world’s most powerful institutions. By Raffi Khatchadourian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He has not left the Embassy since he sought asylum there, in June, 2012. Photograph by Nadav Kander for The New Yorker I. The Ecuadorian Embassy in London […]
NAF Jet Destroys Boko Haram Tactical H/Qs In Sabon Tumbun, Borno
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed a former Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) Tactical Headquarters at Sabon Tumbun in the Lake Chad Green Fringes. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to […]
Nigerian Democracy and the Threat of Transactional Politics.
By Jibrin Ibrahim This week, the Yar’Adua Centre held a conference on citizenship, democracy and the culture of transactional politics in Nigeria. The underlying concern at the conference was the excessive role of corruption and money politics in the political process and the corresponding decline of the role of the citizen in directing political outcomes. […]