The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, threatened on Saturday night to attack Nigeria if the killings of Christians continued. T his threat follows his earlier warning on Friday, urging the Nigerian government to take decisive action against terrorists attacking and killing Nigerians in the country. Trump stated that his country would …
Wig-wearing British barristers gather outside Parliament in London in September 2022. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images) Updated guidelines allow more lawyers to dispense with the curly horsehair wigs, while traditionalists fear a loss of courtroom decorum. LONDON — The British legal system isn’t abandoning its 300-year tradition of curly white wigs just yet, but it is making …
If Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry Kissinger and a Lagos “area boy” ever decided to write a joint textbook on 21st-century diplomacy, they would still struggle to match the creative foreign policy gymnastics of Donald Josephine Trump. Forget traditional diplomacy; Trump introduced us to a new school of statecraft: “The Diplomacy of the Asylum.” A style where …
(A Satirical National Peacekeeping Manual) 🧖🏾♂️ INTRODUCTION Nigeria doesn’t solve problems — it manages them like an overworked HR manager in a toxic workplace: Nobody gets fired Everybody gets queried And we all gather for a “peace meeting” that creates more problems than it solved So here is the Face-Saving Formula that will allow the Federal …
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If Nigerian jurisprudence had a Netflix category, the State vs Nnamdi Kanu series would sit in “Legal Thriller – Comedy – Seasonal Madness – Viewer Discretion Advised.” Because at this point, even the Constitution is clutching its sections like a wrapper and saying, “Somebody should hold me before I slap somebody here!” Let’s recap the …
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