AFP A secessionist group is campaigning for independence in south-eastern Nigeria In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that many of the hopes Nigerians had at independence have been dashed. Of all the stories I have heard of the day when Nigeria gained independence from Britain …
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Responding to inquiries on who killed renowned journalist, Dele Giwa who died from a parcel bomb blast, Babangida said, “A Bomb”. When asked in the interview on who sent the bomb, he replied: “Would you ever think somebody could sit and ask a soldier or anybody, go and kill that man?” Upon the interviewer’s response …
Patience Jonathan says current president’s bid to retrieve millions allegedly siphoned off is revenge for her stance in 2015 poll Patience Jonathan at an election rally in 2015. She says the Buhari administration’s ‘microscopic scrutiny’ is an act of revenge Photograph: Reuters Nigeria’s former first lady has launched a tirade against the country’s president, Muhammadu …
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Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris The lawmaker representing Bauchi central senatorial district, Isah Hamman Misau, on Wednesday alleged that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, impregnated a serving deputy superintendent of police (DSP), Asta. He says Idris’ conduct contravenes the police act. Misau, a former police officer added that the IGP married Asta secretly in …
For a body of people with manifestly indefensible views, the US gun fraternity continues to enjoy a deferential hearing in Britain, at least on the regular occasions when its principles result in a massacre. The routine attrition, of a mass murder (that is, four or more people) a day, is now so unremarkable, such an …
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