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Nigeria’s traditional ‘Kayan Mata’ recipes have grown into a booming industry that’s empowering women to be more open about sex When Amra Mansur was working as a makeup artist in Abuja, while she studied law, she would overhear conversations between would-be brides and older relatives about how to please their men in the bedroom. The …
Continue reading "‘Men said we were immoral’: the aphrodisiacs challenging taboos by Wana Udobang"
Meet General Ishola Williams(rtd), the man who made news in 1993 when he walked out on the Army and government headed by former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha. The bearded man who resigned from the Army on the premise that the military takeover that brought Abacha in was immoral, is an interesting personality …
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If anyone is looking for a perfect illustration and confirmation of the “coming anarchy” in Nigeria, that person needs not look farther than the on-going conflict and crisis of mutual distrust between the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Army. Turn away, for a moment, from Boko Haram (Nigeria is still unable to find a solution …
Continue reading "When Soldiers Do Police Work: Disaster by Reuben Abati"
Sweet mother I no go forget you For dey suffer we you suffer for me yeah [2x] When i dey crry my mother go carry me She go say my pikin wetin you dey cry yeah yeah Stop stop! stop stop!! stop stop!!! Make you no cry again oo When i wan sleep my mother …
Fifty three years ago, “Five Majors” and a group of subalterns predominantly of Igbo or eastern extraction struck with Nigeria’s first coup and by the time their guns were silent, several prominent politicians and military officers of Northern, Hausa and or Fulani origin lay dead murdered in cold blood, including: Politicians: 1. Prime Minister Abubakar …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 