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For several weeks in something that looked like a Nollywood movie, the Nigerian government flagrantly defied the courts, refusing to release political activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore. There were people who thought this was strange or unusual or unprecedented. If you are one of them, you have not been paying attention: it is the Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingIt is six months since President Muhammadu Buhari responded to the shame of Nigeria becoming the poverty capital of the world under his watch. Speaking on June 12, Nigeria’s new Democracy Day, he announced that his All Progressives Congress (APC) party would lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. Such an achievement […]
Continue ReadingFirst, they arrived in the small hours and, proceeding as if Omoyele Sowore owned a small army of his own, seized the political activist from his hotel room. Then, after confirming to the world they indeed had him, they kept him without filing any charges beyond the time-frame allowed by law. Then they asked a […]
Continue ReadingIn the mid-1980s, I became friends with a legendary Nigerian soldier known as “Black Scorpion.” His real name was Benjamin Adekunle, smallish stripe of a man who had acquired the reputation of a killer during the civil war. Tales abound about how he could reduce opposing military formations—and men twice his size—to dissolution and tears. When we met, […]
Continue ReadingSome good things happened in the presidential and National Assembly elections of last weekend. There was the resounding defeat of Bukola Saraki, the ruthless Kwara State politician and Senate President who last year defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party he had abandoned for the APC four years ago. Also soundly […]
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