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Going through the newspapers last week it seemed as though the Nigerian world was crashing, ready to come down and bury all of us. And it is not as if we are strangers to bad news; we experience it every day, every week and when a new piece of bad news comes it is easy …
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Buhari • President Has Failed People — US Airforce Veteran, Ashiru• Says Govt Insensitive In Handling Of Kidnap-for-ransom• Experts Berate Buhari For Constantly Ignoring Intelligence• NASS Urged To Save Country From Insecurity• ‘To Outlaw Ransom Payments, There Must Be Alternatives For People’• HURIWA Canvasses Death Penalty For Operatives Colluding With Terrorists, Kidnappers With pervasive insecurity, …
University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums Oxford University could return almost 100 artefacts that were looted by British colonial forces in 1897, after Nigeria requested the repatriation of the cultural items this year. The 97 objects, including bronzes, were taken from Benin City by British troops and are currently …
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and one of the largest economies in Africa, has become a perilously insecure state. From armed banditryin the northwest to Boko Haram Jihadist terrorism in the northeast, insecurity has deteriorated in Africa’s most populous nation. The irony of Nigeria’s current security challenges is that the country has made, and continues to make, huge …
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Regardless of the legal obstacles to convicting the former President, Hutchinson’s testimony reconfirmed that he must never again be allowed anywhere near power. On Tuesday morning, Hunter Biden started trending on social media—a surefire sign that the right was worried about the upcoming testimony of the former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, which was …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 