I was a girl sold for the price of a used motorcycle at 17
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a village when the rains fail and the yams come up stunted and grey.
‘50 million Nigerians openly defecate’
If you reside in a village where you consume brown, muddy water drawn from a pond shared with cows and goats, with your surroundings enveloped in repugnant smell from open defecation, you are already a candidate for diseases and death.
Avengers: The new face of Niger-Delta militancy
WHEN the former‘General Officer Commanding, GOC’, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, took space in some national newspapers, last week, to criticise the latest militant group in the region, the Niger-Delta Avengers (NDA), it was apparent that there was fire on the mountain.
INVASION OF FARMING COMMUNITIES: Between cattle rustlers and killer herdsmen
BEFORE July 2015, cattle rustling had been a nightmare to cattle rearers across the core Northern states in Nigeria, but it only took a Federal Government directive for the problem to come to national attention.
Aspect of change Ireland expects from Nigerian visa applicants
THE widespread belief among Nigerian visa applicants to Ireland is the complexities in securing a permit into the country.
INVASION OF FARMING COMMUNITIES: Between cattle rustlers and killer herdsmen
BEFORE July 2015, cattle rustling had been a nightmare to cattle rearers across the core Northern states in Nigeria, but it only took a Federal Government directive for the problem to come to national attention.
