1. Background: The Law With Too Many Muscles and Not Enough Brain Edo State’s anti-cultism law has long been presented as a decisive weapon in the fight against social violence — a show of force intended to reassure the public that the state is “doing something.” But like many Nigerian laws, it sometimes feels like …
Godwin Obaseki The current investigations launched by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Monday Okpebholo into the financial agreements and project arrangements of the immediate past administration of Godwin Obaseki mark a significant moment in Edo State’s democratic evolution. Regardless of whatever political perfume the Okpebholo administration may be spraying over its intentions, the …
There’s a peculiar kind of nostalgia brewing in certain Reform Party corners — a longing for the “good old days.” You know, when television looked like a snowstorm of beige, when sports were “proper,” and when diversity meant two kinds of pudding. Unfortunately for them, the 1950s called — and it’s not taking returns. It …
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In Nigeria, a shadow industry thrives in plain sight. It operates from the dimly lit corners of cybercafés, the bustling stalls of roadside vendors, and the sleek interfaces of social media platforms. Its currency is not naira or dollar, but legitimacy itself. This is the epidemic of document falsification—a pervasive and alarming symptom of the …
Visitors sit before the Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. (David Cliff/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images) The bronze plaques from his birthplace looked strange at the British Museum.Enotie Ogbebor, a visiting artist, knew they were cultural treasures. West African sculptors had crafted them over six centuries to tell the history of Benin, a kingdom …
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