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THE hasty replacement of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit in the Nigeria Police Force, with the Special Weapons and Tactical Team, only smuggled in a repackaged old wine in a new bottle. This reality has been irritatingly exposed with the unending police brutality. The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in October 2020, hurriedly …
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NIGERIA —sloppy, self-styled Africa’s giant— is currently sitting on a powder keg with the increasing number of its impoverished citizens helplessly pushing the poverty index to an alarming tempo. A new World Bank report paints a grim picture, requiring an urgent, pragmatic approach by state actors to determinedly halt the tide of poverty. The report …
Happy 94th Birthday to Sidney Poitier KBE. Born February 20, 1927, He is an actor, film director, and ambassador. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor (on his second nomination) becoming the first black male and Afro-Bahamian actor to win that award. In 1958, Poitier starred with Tony Curtis as chained-together escaped …
THE recent sacking of a security guard with the Nigerian Embassy in Germany for allegedly demanding sex from a Nigerian in order to help her renew a passport has again exposed the pains that Nigerians in the Diaspora go through to obtain a travel document. It is bad enough that Nigerians at home cannot easily …
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US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at his office after speaking on the Senate floor in the US Capitol [Al Drago/Reuters] US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial: “January 6th [2021] was a disgrace. “American citizens attacked their own government. …
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