Politics

There are moments in a nation’s life when tragedy reveals not weakness, but strength. The abduction in Niger State was one of those moments. What extremists intended as a blow to national morale instead exposed something far more powerful: a country that refuses to break, refuses to fracture, and refuses to allow evil to dictate…

At 7:30 a.m. in Abuja, a line of young recruits stretches along the perimeter of a National Youth Service Corps camp now converted, temporarily, into a police training depot. Some arrived from Port Harcourt, others from Kano and Enugu. Their presence here is the result of a sweeping emergency directive issued by the Nigerian president…