Since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a rapt global audience has followed in real time a spectacle usually reserved for the most senior levels of government: the fashioning of an exculpatory fig leaf for an atrocity. That work is almost done. Saudi Arabia appears on the verge of getting its story straight, …
Down memory lane – Bata’s Tilbury influence
Editorial The name of Bata is now part of the Yoruba language as Bata is the word for shoe This week’s trip Down Memory Lane takes a look at Batas and its long history in the area. In 1930 Thomas Bata completed the purchase of farm land just north of the old village of East …
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Nigerian Edirin Okoloko was sworn in as a Judge in the state of Washington. (Video)
A United state governor, Jay Inslee governor of Washington state, has appointed a Nigerian man Edirin Okoloko, as judge as the Snohomish County Superior Court. “Edirin has a clear dedication to the legal profession and a successful history of bringing justice to some of our state’s most vulnerable crime victims,” Inslee said. “He will be …
‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team Michael Lewis
Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times – that’s how it all started. The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind Donald Trump. In late April, he saw the article. It described meetings between representatives of the remaining candidates …
BREAKING: How 5 DSS operatives helped Nnamdi Kanu to escape to Ghana through Bayelsa
Sources have confirmed to LeadersNG that the exiled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, which advocates a sovereign state for the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria as well as those from the south-south region of Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu was helped to escape Nigeria about 13 months ago by 5 operatives of Nigeria’s secret Police …
