I left for Abuja on Thursday 17th December 2020 in order to attend a friend's wedding on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday 20th I boarded Big Joe bus to Benin city, getting to Ekpoma, the driver told us that he won't be going to Benin because it was already past 7pm, so some of us …
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Do you need a break? From what? I am having a ball
General Sani Abacha General Sani Abacha, may his dark goggles rest in eternal glory, was not merely a dictator; he was an educator. A pedagogue. A visiting professor of political science long before political science lost shame. His greatest innovation was consensus democracy: five political parties, one candidate, zero confusion. Why waste time with choice …
There is a quiet but corrosive lie that has followed African Americans for centuries: that Black history began when the first slave ship reached continental America. It did not. What began on those ships was not history, but interruption. Before the Atlantic became a mass grave, before Black bodies were reduced to cargo, before names …
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In any civilised legal system, secret services gather intelligence; prosecutors prosecute. The two jobs are related, but like gin and driving, best kept separate. Across mature democracies, this distinction is not controversial. MI5 does not file charges in London. The CIA does not arraign defendants in Washington. Mossad does not draft charge sheets in Tel …
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