Supreme Court Rulings, Party Crises, and a Democracy Adrift: The More You Look, The Less You Understand
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On The Frontline With Boma Democracy, they say,thrives on clarity. But in Nigeria today, clarity appears to be on indefinite suspension.Last Thursday, Nigeria’s political theatre delivered yet another plot twist—one that would have been amusing...
Cosmetic Surgery: A Fatal Exercise or Fleeting Pleasure?
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On The Frontline With Boma In a world where appearance is increasingly gaining currency, beauty has quietly transformed from a natural attribute into a constructed ideal—one that can be bought, sculpted, and, increasingly, surgically engineered....
The Burden of a World Bank Report: When 140 Million Nigerians Live in Poverty
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On the Frontline With Boma There are figures that pass as mere statistics, and there are figures that strike like a moral verdict on a nation. The recent report by the World Bank placing about...
Bombs in a Season of Reflection: The US–Israel War on Iran and the Cost to Humanity
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On The Frontline With Boma There are moments in history when the timing of an action speaks louder than the action itself. War, by its very nature, is tragic, but when it erupts in a...
Bombs in a Season of Reflection: The US–Israel War on Iran and the Cost to Humanity
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On The Frontline With Boma There are moments in history when the timing of an action speaks louder than the action itself. War, by its very nature, is tragic, but when it erupts in a...
The likely shape of the New World Order evolving in the Middle East (2)
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger Iliyasu GaduIlgad2009@gmail.com08035355706 (Texts only) In his seminal book ‘’The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000’’, British Political historian Paul Kennedy took a broad sweep through...
The likely shape of the New World Order evolving in the Middle East (1)
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger Iliyasu GaduIlgad2009@gmail.com08035355706 (Texts only) Before February 28, 2026, (that is about three weeks ago) the main topic of discussion among analysts of geo-politics was on the declining status of the United States of America as...
A Festival of Shame: The Oruamudu Tragedy and Its Implications for the Nigerian State
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On the Frontline With Boma There are stories that disturb, and there are stories that disgrace a nation. What has emerged from Oruamudu community in Ozoro Local Government Area of Delta State is not merely...
How the North betrayed itself and Nigeria
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger Iliyasu GaduIlgad2009@gmail.com08035355706 (Texts only) If the late Premier of Northern Nigeria Sardauna of Sokoto Sir Ahmadu Bello, late Prime Minister of Nigeria Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, late Mallam Aminu Kano the leader of the Northern Elements...
That Rivers Assembly Screening: Lessons in Power, Scrutiny and Public Dignity
Share this… Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin Wechat Whatsapp Telegram Blogger On The Frontline With Boma On the morning of March 9, 2026, I sat quietly in the comfort of my living room watching international news coverage of rising tensions in the Middle East involving Iran....