Badeh was killed by expert marksmen, associate insists by Unini Chioma

Editorial That’s silly talk. Badeh was dead man walking after his charge of crimes against the Nigerian state by privatising state funds earmarked for fight against insurgents. If he was found guilty, he would have wished he was killed instead. There is zero interest in his physical elimination. He was killed by fellow thieves who …

Go home’ to Ghana. Well, why not? Michaela Coel

What do you say when asked where you’re ‘from, from’? Acting in Black Earth Rising made me reconsider my ideas of identity and belonging ‘On second thoughts, I’m privileged enough to have seen a selfish silver lining in the ‘go home’ vans.’ Photograph: Home Office/PA In June I lost my ability to smell. I have …

Captain of Nigerian private jet ordered to leave country after flying to Bournemouth Airport

A Nigerian airline says it could pull its business out of the UK after one of its pilots was arrested by immigration officials on suspicion of being a stowaway and threatened with deportation. Max Air, which is based in Nigeria, condemned the move by border staff at Bournemouth International Airport as an example of the Home …

Life and times of late Shehu Shagari in photos Oluwatobi Bolashodunan

Former President Shehu Shagari, on Friday, December 28, died at the age of 93 at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a brief illness. He was the first and only president of Nigeria’s Second Republic after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo’s military government. The former president, who was in power between October 1, …