Roland* was a first-year student when he joined the Buccaneers, a secret, illegal student society in Nigeria. A brutal initiation ritual was held late at night in the forest. Older members, singing, dancing and drinking, formed a ring around him and other blindfolded initiates, beating them severely until the early hours of the morning. The …
Trump’s GOOD PEOPLE VS THUGS
A: Good People White people who were so angry they cannot get haircuts and their nails done, because of Covid-19 lockdown that they forced their way into Michigan State House of Assembly with the most sophisticated guns that can make a national army jealous; Trump called GOOD PEOPLE, the governor should talk to them. B: …
Trump envisioned ‘American carnage.’ Now, he’s got it. by Jonathan Allen
Analysis: The president has met protests against state violence with calls for more of it. WASHINGTON — When Trump first addressed the nation as its president on Jan. 20, 2017, he depicted the nation's cities as domestic combat zones and declared "this American carnage stops right here and stops right now." Back then, it was …
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Zik’s version of what transpired between him and Ojukwu during the Biafra war
"Yes. I played a prominent role in Biafra for the unity of the country in order to restore peace and bring about unity of the country. That’s the role I played. I advised Ojukwu. I said well look, you have declared secession. What we should do is to get the elder statesmen and women of …
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The world of Nigeria’s sex-trafficking ‘Air Lords’ by Sam Piranty BBC
Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using …
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