Joris Bolomey—AFP/Getty Images The African Union chief did not mince his words. On Wednesday he rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s accusation that “record numbers” of Christians were being killed in Nigeria. “Think twice before... making such statements,” Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York. “The first victims of Boko Haram are Muslims, …
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu There is no doubt that many Nigerians today have their opinions about the country's judiciary. For most, it borders on confidence betrayed, while for many, despondency has become the attitude towards that institution which ought to reflect the best to be expected of a presumed temple of justice. Over the years, …
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There are many great mysteries in the universe — like where socks go after you wash them, or how Nigerian politicians manage to get re-elected after four years of “ghost projects.” But perhaps the greatest riddle of our age is why anyone still asks questions for which Donald Trump or the modern GOP could possibly …
Robert Jennick On a recent expedition to the legendary ecosystem of Westminster, I went in search of the fabled "Normal Human." Alas, none were to be found. Instead, the terrain was dominated by a particularly performative subspecies, let's call them Politicus dramaticus, or as the locals refer to them, "Halfwits."The most sighted specimen was a …
From 1999 to 2015, the PDP was less a political party and more a continental shelf — wide, immovable, and seemingly permanent. Joining it felt like acquiring political citizenship; leaving it felt like renouncing oxygen. Power wasn’t contested between parties; it was a gladiator arena within the PDP. The fiercest battles were not between ideological …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 