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The European Court of Human Rights’s judgment in Ejimson v Germany (application no. 58681/12) has a whiff of Groundhog Day. For the second time in just over six months the court found that a Nigerian national convicted of drug-related crimes could not prevent deportation by relying on his relationship with his child. Crimes and deportation order Mr …

Continue reading "Déjà vu as Strasbourg approves deportation of Nigerian drug trafficker By Clare Duffy"

The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. King’s courageous and compassionate example shatters the dominant neoliberal soul-craft of smartness, money and bombs. His grand fight against poverty, militarism, materialism and racism undercuts the superficial lip service and pretentious posturing of so-called progressives as well as the …

Continue reading "Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy by Cornel West"

William Easterly is a Professor of Economics at the New York University, who in a 2006 publication; “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good”, enunciated that fragile states are plagued by two factors, namely: political identity fragmentation and weak national institutions …

Continue reading "When individuals are stronger than state institutions by Adewale Kupoluyi"

These days, it is difficult to keep up with the mindless killings going on around the country. On a daily basis, reports of gory killings inundate the airwaves and benumb the mind. From Niger Delta militants’ macabre gyrations to gangland (cultism) killings, and Fulani herdsmen carnage to Boko Haram massacres, the nation is always in …

Continue reading "Mindless killing of Nigerians By Punch Editorial Board"