Baba Yunus Muhammad As General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida marks his eighty-fifth birthday, I find myself reflecting less on the office he once occupied and more on...
Chidi Amuta On the dichotomy of kingly power and clerical obligations, there is an undisputed demarcation. Unto kings is given the power to guarantee the orderly...
Baba Yunus Muhammad The signing of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan on 7 August 2026 may eventually be remembered as...
From Our Special Correspondent in the Occupied Territories There is something profoundly unsettling about the language now being used to describe Gaza. The word “ceasefire” suggests...
Chidi Amuta Nelson Mandela must be churning in his resting place. An exemplary life lived and a myth created on a dream and a vision is...
Editor’s Note: This editorial reflects on the broader strategic lessons arising from recent reports concerning Gaza and the Palestinian resistance. It does not seek to prejudge...
Baba Yunus Muhammad Every generation of Muslim scholars inherits two responsibilities. The first is to preserve the integrity of the Islamic tradition by studying, teaching and...
History has a remarkable way of exposing the arrogance of great powers. Every generation produces statesmen convinced that military superiority can overcome political reality, that overwhelming...
There are moments in international affairs when a single diplomatic negotiation transcends its immediate subject matter to illuminate a much larger transformation in the global order....
From Our Special Correspondent in Tehran Few stories emerging from the shadowy world of Middle Eastern geopolitics in recent years have possessed the dramatic quality of...
