Nigeria

We Will Meet the Barbarians at the Gate: No Retreat, No Surrender, No Plan B!0
- Nigeria
- Thursday, May 13th, 2021
In 1842 Thomas Babington Macauly wrote my favourite poem titled ‘Horatius at the Gate’ and made a point that we can all learn from in Nigeria today. He wrote: “Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die
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LASTMA as an instrument of extortion and entrapment in Lagos State.0
- Nigeria
- Saturday, May 8th, 2021
The supposed purpose of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is to “manage traffic in Lagos State, Nigeria”. In order words, LASTMA is traffic wardens tasked with the sole purpose of managing the free flow of traffic. But, as a lot of Lagosians will observe, the agency has morphed into a money-making machine both
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Unmasking A Jihadi Masquerade: The Many Faces Of Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami 0
- Nigeria
- Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami is a man of many descriptions. To some, he is a bright-eyed, relentlessly intelligent and academically competent Young Turk, who has found his way into the topmost level of Nigeria’s government at the relatively young age of 48. To others, he is a symbol
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Pendulum: The Truth My Fulani Friends Must Accept By Dele Momodu 0
- Nigeria
- Monday, April 12th, 2021
“Everything that has a beginning must have an end. As they say on the street: “E fit take time, but one day, one day, Monkey go go market” “I love this quote about injustice: “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the
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President Buhari appoints Usman Baba as Acting IGP in place of Mohammed Adamu.0
- Nigeria
- Thursday, April 8th, 2021
President Buhari has appointed Usman Alkali Baba as the new Inspector General of Police in place of erstwhile Mohammed Adamu. The sudden termination of the former IGP may not be unconnected with the recent space of attacks on police facilities. And, most recent, attack on police headquarter and prison break by unknown assailants in Imo
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Imo attacks: Owerri prison, Police HQ, Government House ransacked. IG blames IPOB 0
- Nigeria
- Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
The Inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Adamu has laid the recent attacks on facilities in Owerri, Imo State squarely at the feet of IPOB and their militant wing Eastern Security Network. The attacks according to Police spokesperson Frank Mba resulted in the release of approximately 1,800 inmates, the burning down of some parts of
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