Jide Adesina, Author at 1st Afrika

Togo, Niger, Benin owe Nigeria N25bn for electricity – NERC

Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026January 7, 2026

by Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026January 7, 2026096

Nigeria’s electricity exports to neighbouring West African countries are again under scrutiny after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission disclosed that Togo, Niger and Benin owe...

ReconAfrica Upsizes Financing to Fast-Track Kavango, Angola and Gabon Programs

Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026

by Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 20260122

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd has significantly strengthened its balance sheet as it prepares to accelerate exploration and appraisal activities across three African jurisdictions. The company...

AFRIKA HERALD

Northern Nigeria and the Crisis of Counter-Terrorism: When Villages Become Battlefields

Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026

by Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026072

The killing of at least thirty villagers and the abduction of others during a coordinated raid in northern Nigeria is not merely another tragic headline...

POLITICS

Can Europe Really Stand Up to a Trump-Era America?

Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026January 7, 2026

by Jide AdesinaJanuary 7, 2026January 7, 2026073

The renewed tension over Greenland isn’t about Denmark. It’s about Europe’s long-standing decision to outsource hard power to the United States—and the price of that...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD ARTS & CULTURE Education HALL OF FAME International News

A REVIEW OF NOT MY WILL BY OLUSEGUN OBASANJO: TRUTH, POWER, AND THE PERFUMED SMOKE OF NATIONHOOD

Jide AdesinaDecember 1, 2025December 1, 2025

by Jide AdesinaDecember 1, 2025December 1, 20250258

There are books written by leaders to immortalize themselves, and there are books written by leaders to justify themselves. Not My Will often feels like...

Entertainment MAGAZINES

ATIKO: A REVERENCE TO THE SPIRITS

Jide AdesinaNovember 30, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 30, 20250174

There are films that entertain, and then there are films that quietly step into the bloodstream of a people, carrying with them centuries of memory,...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

Breaking the Cycle: Reclaiming Nigeria from Banditry, Kidnapping, and the Politics of Negotiated Chaos

Jide AdesinaNovember 30, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 30, 20250206

Nigeria’s long, painful struggle with banditry, kidnapping, and the cyclical crises that draw figures like Sheikh Gumi into public negotiations cannot be understood without tracing...

AFRIKA HERALD Education HALL OF FAME International News POLITICS

The Emergence of Six Futuristic Sovereign Nations from Nigeria and the Birth of a United Republic of Africa: A Peaceful Reimagining of Statehood and the African Paradigm of Civilized Separation

Jide AdesinaNovember 28, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 28, 20250342

The idea that Nigeria could one day reconfigure itself into a constellation of independent sovereign nations, while simultaneously retaining a higher framework of unity, no...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD ARTS & CULTURE Entertainment International News POLITICS Power Tourism

Davido’s Dangerous Dance with Rebellion: When Stardom Flirts with Sedition and the Nation Pays the Price

Jide AdesinaNovember 24, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 24, 20250239

In a moment that should shock every patriotic Nigerian to his or her core, the globally celebrated artist Davido has openly aligned himself — through...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

The Supremacy of Law, the Limits of Agitation, and the Burden of Nationhood: An Editorial Summation on the Kanu Question and the Nigerian Republic

Jide AdesinaNovember 22, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 22, 20250261

In the enduring contest between liberty and order, few modern legal sagas in Nigeria have summoned such intense moral scrutiny, geopolitical commentary, and constitutional introspection...

AFRIKA HERALD POLITICS RELIGION

THE LONG SHADOW OF DENIAL: A RESPONSE TO PASTOR ADEIFARASIN’S ERRONEOUS REMARKS ON THE REALITY OF CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA

Jide AdesinaNovember 14, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 14, 20250281

There are moments in a nation’s history when silence becomes an accomplice to suffering, and when careless speech—especially from the pulpit—deepens the wounds of an...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

Nigeria: A Developing Nation or a Developed Country?

Jide AdesinaNovember 11, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 11, 20250418

Nigeria is widely categorized in global development literature as a developing country. Yet, this label, while technically correct, does not begin to capture the complexity,...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

Nigeria’s Sovereignty and Strategic Resilience: Navigating Security, Diplomacy, and National Unity in the 21st Century

Jide AdesinaNovember 10, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 10, 20250280

Speculation regarding a potential American invasion of Nigeria is not only unfounded but fundamentally misrepresents the geopolitical realities of the modern world. While it is...

AFRIKA HERALD POLITICS

The Urgent Need to Expose and Prosecute Terrorism Financiers and Political Sponsors

Jide AdesinaNovember 8, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 8, 20250261

Nigeria’s prolonged agony — from Boko Haram’s carnage in the North-East, to the silent ethnic cleansing of farming communities in the Middle Belt, to the...

AFRIKA HERALD POLITICS

Nigeria at the Crossroads: Faith, Power, and the Battle for the Nation’s Soul

Jide AdesinaNovember 8, 2025November 8, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 8, 2025November 8, 20250248

Nigeria stands at one of the most defining moments in its post-independence history. The nation is widely celebrated as Africa’s most populous country, a cultural...

AFRIKA HERALD ARTS & CULTURE Education

NSIBIDI: THE LIVING SCRIPT OF MEMORY AND SYMBOL

Jide AdesinaNovember 7, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 7, 20250335

By Jide Adesina Long before the introduction of Western alphabets and before the Arabic Ajami writing system reached the hinterlands of West Africa, communities in...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

Sands of Time, Shadows of Power: Nigeria at the Crossroads of Security, Truth, and National Redemption

Jide AdesinaNovember 7, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 7, 20250257

The crisis of insecurity in Nigeria today did not emerge by chance, nor did it grow overnight. It is the product of historical negligence, political...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News POLITICS

Genocide of Christians in the Northern Part of Nigeria Is Real: A Human Rights Report and Call for Responsibility

Jide AdesinaNovember 5, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 5, 20250341

Over the past two decades, persistent violence in the Middle Belt and Northern regions of Nigeria has led to the systematic displacement, mass killing, and...

AFRIKA HERALD POLITICS

Echoes of Unity: Navigating Nigeria’s Ethnic Chain’s in the Shadow of Global Missteps

Jide AdesinaNovember 3, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 3, 20250282

In the intricate mosaic of global affairs, where the threads of history, identity, and aspiration intertwine, Nigeria stands as a beacon of resilience amid the...

Africa AFRIKA HERALD International News North America POLITICS

The Diplomacy of Memory and Bloodlines: Navigating America’s Reawakened Interest in Nigeria

Jide AdesinaNovember 3, 2025

by Jide AdesinaNovember 3, 20250221

In this delicate moment of geopolitical tension, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must approach the situation with the poise, strategic maturity, and emotional intelligence that characterized...

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