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As Nigeria’s steady and seemingly inexorable drift into an abyss of anomie continues, it is difficult not to notice the striking resemblance between the way Boko Haram was propped up in the not-too-distant past, by those in a position to have nipped its incipient danger in the bud, and the way the marauding Fulani herders …
Continue reading "Herdsmen terror: Rising above ethnicity by Abdulfatai Ayobami Ibrahim"
I have on occasion chastised the Nigerian media, especially Premium Times and Channels TV, for offering prestigious platforms to EFCC graduates and assorted political recidivists to wade in on national affairs, interviewing and seeking their opinion on national issues, thereby normalizing and legitimizing them. Sule Lamido is a career EFCC indictee with an illustrious legacy …
Continue reading "Sule Lamido on President Buhari: The Death of Nigeria By Pius Adesanmi"
THE Benin Empire as described by Prof. Philip Igbafe in his Benin Under British administration represented "the unwieldy but fluid empire which was made up of a loose conglomeration of various people's covering from most of present-day Delta and Edo States to Lagos and beyond. In fact, on a Dutch map drawn in 1705, titled …
Continue reading "Edo people´s renaissanceVanguard: Perspectives By J.O.S Ayomike"
Paul Akinnuoye found guilty of murder for stabbing a teenager to death Met Police A student is facing life in prison for murdering a man over a WhatsApp argument about who was least gay. Paul Akinnuoye, 20, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, stabbed to death Jordan Wright, 19, after the pair traded gay insults in …
The biggest problem with many African countries is that they're led by men like Trump. African leaders and U.S. President Donald Trump pose during the G-7 Summit on May 27, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. (Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported comments maligning the people of African nations were a foreseeable outburst from a …
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