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Kemi Badenoch The British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s uninformed criticisms of her ancestral country have caused a backlash in Nigeria and across its diaspora. The American Professor John Paden described Nigeria as “the most complicated country in the world” with good reason. Nigeria has hundreds of different ethnic groups speaking over 500 different languages, …
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The biggest political news out of Nigeria in the past week was the launch of A Journey in Service: An Autobiography written by Ibrahim B. Babangida, former military president of Nigeria aka IBB aka Maradona aka The Evil Genius. The book, an account of his military and “political” life has been long awaited and the turn-out of …
Museum in Koko, Niger Delta, commemorates important exiled merchant prince Nanna Olomu – but it has no cooling and a termite issue In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten. A statue of Nanna Olomu, the Nigerian …
To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country. If Donald Trump’s first days in the White House, in 2017, were about shock and awe—his haunting “American carnage” speech, the Muslim …
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Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football, particularly the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles. The team’s success in the 1990s, with players like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu, provided a sense of pride and belonging for the Nigerian community in London. Football became a way for Nigerians to connect with their heritage and feel …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 