Notable cases included the Pc Keith Blakelock murder trial, the Brighton bombing and the Damilola Taylor murder trial. Defence barrister Courtenay Griffiths KC (25 Bedford Row/PA ) The British legal world has paid tribute to “legendary” defence barrister Courtenay Griffiths KC, who has died at the age of 69. Jamaica-born Dr Griffiths was among the …
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General DJ Trump Since the war on Gaza started, the defining dynamic has been of unprecedented anger, panic and alarm from the public, swirling around an eerily placid political centre. The feeble response from mainstream liberal parties is entirely dissonant with the gravity of the moment. As the US joins Israel in attacking Iran, and the …
Kemi Badenoch The British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s uninformed criticisms of her ancestral country have caused a backlash in Nigeria and across its diaspora. The American Professor John Paden described Nigeria as “the most complicated country in the world” with good reason. Nigeria has hundreds of different ethnic groups speaking over 500 different languages, …
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The biggest political news out of Nigeria in the past week was the launch of A Journey in Service: An Autobiography written by Ibrahim B. Babangida, former military president of Nigeria aka IBB aka Maradona aka The Evil Genius. The book, an account of his military and “political” life has been long awaited and the turn-out of …
Museum in Koko, Niger Delta, commemorates important exiled merchant prince Nanna Olomu – but it has no cooling and a termite issue In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten. A statue of Nanna Olomu, the Nigerian …
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