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APPARENTLY infuriated by the failure and unwillingness of the Federal Government and its agencies to bring sponsors of electoral violence to book, the United States Government has dealt with the problem directly, announcing a visa restriction on persons who manipulated the conduct of the Kogi and Bayelsa elections that were held last year. The US …
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How to keep a multitude of ethnic nations united and satisfied? This was the greatest hurdle Nigeria faced in the first decade of its independence - and continues to be the case 60 years later. Heated national conversations usually revolve around which ethnic nations gets what, when, and how. Or how fairly a person from …
A decade before Floyd’s death, David Smith died in Minneapolis police custody. But his case did not cause public outcry, and officers involved did not face discipline. “Is he breathing?” Minneapolis police officer Timothy Callahan wondered aloud. The question came after he and his partner — responding to a call of a person acting strangely …
The new six-episode Netflix nonfiction anthology “Trial by Media” constitutes good, solid recappery in the realm of true crime and 50 shades of quality in the world of press coverage of high-profile legal sweepstakes. The series title suggests a hit job on the media, which it isn’t. Nor is it in the bag for the …
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