“The cruelty of such a response is difficult to comprehend. Parents whose children have been torn from their arms are not asking for rice. Mothers who do not know whether their children are hungry, sick, traumatised, or even alive are not demanding palliatives.

Legendary American R&B singer-songwriter Peabo Bryson, whose soulful duets and romantic ballads defined generations of music lovers, has died at the age of 75.

According to Omo-Agege, he remains convinced that some of the administration’s most significant economic decisions, particularly the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira, were necessary reforms.

“And for all those who are expecting an 84-year-old man, servant of God, to lead a protest against a government, this does not make sense by virtue of his age and by the mandate of his calling,” he stated.

Désiré Doué will be playing for France at the World Cup while his older brother Guela Doué will star for Côte d’Ivoire.