Reporting Nigeria
Former cabinet minister Femi Fani-Kayode launched into a tirade against a journalist on live television In Nigeria questions are still being asked about why some public officials consider journalists to be their errand boys. This follows the outrage that greeted a tongue-lashing one reporter received from a former government minister and member of the opposition …
News of corruption used to outrage our moral susceptibilities. Now they excite our faculty of humor. In Nigeria’s increasingly dreary and despairing political and economic climate, people now look forward to news of bizarre acts of corruption as a source of cathartic hilarity. We thought politicians faking illnesses and enacting histrionic displays in the courtroom …
It was the first day of the session and a new direct entry student, Mensah, a Ghanaian, joined the class in one of Nigeria's universities. The Lecturer said, "let's begin by reviewing some Nigerian history." The Lecturer asked who said, "I shall return to die in the land of my fathers?" She saw a sea …
Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has learnt in the hardest way that two rights can turn into a wrong. Just in 2018, the world toasted him for rejecting a bribe of $412,000 (circa N171 million) from unscrupulous Tramadol drug smugglers, but this year he got disgraced out of the service after leading …
