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Muhammadu Buhari may go but it’s not the leader who matters, the system itself must change President Buhari has overseen two terms of economic slump, rising debt and a calamitous increase in kidnapping and banditry On the British Airways flight between London and Nigeria’s administrative capital of Abuja, one of the airline’s most profitable routes, …
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Motorcyclists ride along a road near Idumota market in Lagos, Nigeria.Photographer: Adetona Omokanye/Bloomberg The race to become Nigeria’s next president has begun. The eventual winner may rue the victory. Whoever leads the country will face a litany of challenges ranging from rampant insecurity, an unsustainable budget and an ailing currency. Muhammadu Buhari, who will hand over power in …
Digital artwork by Adam Ferriss I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the …
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The dispute between the recently arrested sex therapist named Jaruma and Ned Nwoko, the billionaire businessman, has raised questions on the boundary between criminal and civil defamation in Nigeria. Legal practitioners have also questioned the need for police involvement in what could have been just another case for the civil courts. Last November, Regina Daniels, Nwoko’s wife, had disowned Jaruma …
The UK government’s attempt to strip a British-Pakistani woman of her citizenship without telling her was unlawful, a split Court of Appeal has confirmed. Lord Justice Baker and Lady Justice Whipple held that the regulation allowing notice of citizenship deprivation to be placed “on file” is ultra vires the British Nationality Act 1981, which requires the Home …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 