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This week's Saturday Tribune column examines the Streisand effect in relation to Afe Babalola's strong-arm tactics against Dele Farotimi over Farotimi's book, which now ranks number one Amazon's global Best Sellers' list: When 95-year-old legal luminary Afe Babalola weaponized the Nigerian police to arrest and detain activist Dele Farotimi over alleged defamation in his book, …
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Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge. One night around 1983, Anyebe caught his son attempting to steal from his …
Nigeria is doddering on the edge of never-before-seen economic desolation, but President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s major preoccupation is not to bring ministration to a badly hurting nation but to prosecute harmless, impoverished, malnourished, and undernourished minors of northern Nigerian origin who, months ago, joined millions of Nigerians to protest for their right to a …
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People attend a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Sunday. (Nir Elias/Reuters) Not long after elections gave him a new mandate for power in November, Israel’s incoming prime minister won eager praise from a foreign counterpart. “What a great victory for Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel!” tweeted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “Hard times require strong leaders. Welcome …
This week is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg trials. The trials led to the conviction of the people most responsible for the crimes committed in the Holocaust. This Friday we will be releasing a short film about one of the key players, David Maxwell Fyfe, who also went on to be …
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