A lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nile University, Abuja, Abdulrazak Ibrahim, has warned that Nigeria could ...

Some 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, are in Benin to support the government following ...

APC’s Dayo Israel faulted Wole Soyinka’s criticism of Seyi Tinubu’s security, saying Seyi’s public engagements increased his ...

It started quietly in the early hours of Sunday, December 7, 2025, checks by WITHIN NIGERIA report. By 2am, a group of armed ...

The brief coup attempt in Benin has renewed concerns about the stability of democratic systems across West Africa. The ...

Loyalist troops aided by Nigeria’s air force foiled putsch, but confidence in nation’s democratic stability is shaken.

Benin Republic’s Foreign Minister, Olushegun Bakari, has affirmed that Nigeria’s swift and timely intervention, along with ...

The Benin events mark the third coup attempt and first failed coup this year in the Sahel region. There have been 17 coup attempts in Africa since 2020, including 11 successful coups. This makes the ...

Pascal Tigri, the alleged mastermind behind the failed coup in the Republic of Benin, is reportedly hiding in Togo, ...

A dispute between the two small West African nations over Colonel Pascal Tigri and his alleged accomplices would risk deepening diplomatic divisions in West Africa, which has struggled to respond in a ...

Europe too has played its part—France most notably—entangled in the politics of extraction, diplomacy of condescension, and a strategic playbook that treats African sovereignty as a variable, not a ...