Soviet propaganda poster Many people, mostly those outside of Trump’s supporter community, are both appalled and baffled by his lies. How can a President — even one like Trump — Tweet or otherwise give statements that are either clearly untrue, or implausible and totally without evidence. Trump has two types of lies. The first are those that are demonstrably …
Herdsmen terror: Rising above ethnicity by Abdulfatai Ayobami Ibrahim
As Nigeria’s steady and seemingly inexorable drift into an abyss of anomie continues, it is difficult not to notice the striking resemblance between the way Boko Haram was propped up in the not-too-distant past, by those in a position to have nipped its incipient danger in the bud, and the way the marauding Fulani herders …
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Sule Lamido on President Buhari: The Death of Nigeria By Pius Adesanmi
I have on occasion chastised the Nigerian media, especially Premium Times and Channels TV, for offering prestigious platforms to EFCC graduates and assorted political recidivists to wade in on national affairs, interviewing and seeking their opinion on national issues, thereby normalizing and legitimizing them. Sule Lamido is a career EFCC indictee with an illustrious legacy …
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Edo people´s renaissanceVanguard: Perspectives By J.O.S Ayomike
THE Benin Empire as described by Prof. Philip Igbafe in his Benin Under British administration represented "the unwieldy but fluid empire which was made up of a loose conglomeration of various people's covering from most of present-day Delta and Edo States to Lagos and beyond. In fact, on a Dutch map drawn in 1705, titled …
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Student stabs 19-year-old to death over Whatsapp argument over who was least gay by Tom Embury-Dennis
Paul Akinnuoye found guilty of murder for stabbing a teenager to death Met Police A student is facing life in prison for murdering a man over a WhatsApp argument about who was least gay. Paul Akinnuoye, 20, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, stabbed to death Jordan Wright, 19, after the pair traded gay insults in …
