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Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
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In the Aso Jungle but not in control

In the Aso Jungle but not in control

The defeat of GEJ was possible due to PMB’s and All Progressive Congress’s (APC) admirable and mindblowing campaign littered with endless promises of change

Nigeria, the whole world is laughing at you

Nigeria, the whole world is laughing at you

AS I sat listening to the classic: The Whole Town is Laughing At Me, by Teddy Pendergrass, the news came: The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has lashed out and condemned those calling for proscription of the terrorist Fulani herdsmen group, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, despite the series of murderous attacks launched against communities in different parts of the country.  Really?

I do not hate the Fulani race… by Fani-Kayode

I do not hate the Fulani race… by Fani-Kayode

A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO HATE

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”- Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’, 1859.