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Police violence has increased all over the continent. In most cases, perpetrators get away without appropriate sanctions, dealing a blow to the relationship between law enforcement and the public. From Soweto to Nairobi, police brutality cases are on the rise, and citizens are outraged and feel abandoned. Police brutality has become a hot topic globally, …
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One of the problems that has led to the recent protests across the country is a disillusioned youth, with zero opportunities. I know – I was one of them I was surprised at how long it took for the media in the United Kingdom and all over the world to cover the situation in Nigeria. …
Sometime after midnight on October 21, Elisha Sunday Ibanga answered a phone call from his older brother’s number. The person on the other end of the line — a stranger — broke the news that Ibanga’s brother, Victor, had been shot dead at the Lekki toll gate, in Lagos, Nigeria, where he had been peacefully …
Jill Biden is soon to be known as the new First Lady of the US as her husband Joe Biden has secured victory over Donald Trump in the tightest US election race in 20 years. The 69-year-old has been a strong force behind her husband of more than 40 years. Days before the polls opened, …
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‘To this day, many people in Nigeria think I killed him.’ That was the opening line in the riveting account of the last hour of the late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola as told by Ambassador Susan Rice. She was one of the visiting American diplomats in whose presence the presumed winner of the 1993 …
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