NDC As A New Bride, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman In Nigerian politics, new parties arrive the way comets appear in troubled skies. They appear suddenly,...
ADC and Its House of Confusion, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman In the space of a few days, the African Democratic Congress, ADC has managed to...
Understanding South Africa’s Xenophobic Violence (II), by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman Early this month, the argument was made that xenophobic violence in South Africa is not...
Atiku, Why Again? By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman In Nigerian politics, ambition is not unusual. Neither is persistence. But when a politician has been on the...
What Are Our Universities Producing? By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman There was a time in Nigeria when education was not merely a pathway to employment but...
Understanding South Africa’s Xenophobic Violence, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman There is a tendency to explain xenophobic violence in South Africa as a spontaneous eruption of...
The War Beneath the War, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman When the rivalry involving the United States, Israel and Iran is discussed in newspapers or on...
The United States, Israel and the Iran Question, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman In the theatre of West Asian geopolitics, few rivalries have proved as enduring,...
Savannah Shield and the Security Recalibration of Kwara State By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman On Thursday, 19 February 2026, at the historic Sobi Barracks in...
Is Nasir El-Rufai on the Peril? By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman There is something almost Shakespearean about the current phase of Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai’s political journey....
The Electoral Act and the Crisis of Electoral Confidence, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman Nigeria’s electoral laws have always mirrored the country’s uneasy relationship with democracy...
Examining Nigeria’s Health System and Preventable Deaths, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman My last week’s column, ‘The Agony of a Columnist,’ was written from a place...
The Agony of a Columnist, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman There are pains that refuse to be edited out of memory. No matter how carefully one...
Why Always Rivers State? By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman Why is it always Rivers State? The question no longer sounds rhetorical. It has become a recurring...
Abroad and the Mirage of Greener Pastures, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman For many Nigerians, the idea of leaving the country in search of greener pastures...
