DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger’s ruling military junta said.
I had the privilege of being a teenager when Nigeria became independent on October 1, 1960. For fifty-five years I have been ...
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IBB’s memoirs and a nation’s expectations
IBB’s well-known political dexterity, which earned him the nickname “Maradona” after the legendary Argentine footballer, should not be deployed in this memoir. The Nigerian public has evolved beyond ...
When Orange Hitler was reelected on Nov. 5, 2024 and inaugurated on Jan. 20, I immediately thought about a prescient 2018 book entitled “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and ...
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OJUKWU: Exile, Diplomacy And Survival
Volumes have been said and written about the Nigeria-Biafra War, but despite the very huge body of historical (and fictional) works that have accumulated on the war from Nigerian writers, foreign ...
It’s been a while since a book drew such vehement protest as it is happening with Senator Chris Anyanwu's memoir, Bold Leap. Chief ...
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Ogbunwezeh described the former military ruler as a “corrupter-in-chief” who not only compromised “anybody who is corruptible” but also ushered Nigeria ... he led a coup to overthrow ...
Richard Akinnola, a renowned journalist and ally to the late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, has condemned Brigadier-General Kunle Togun (retd.) over his allegations against the ...
Recently in Accra, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, spoke of how African countries can "unlock" their potential by exploiting what he called "a game-changing opportunity for AfriAPDcan ...
Today’s visit by President Julius Maada Bio to Liberia, though officially tagged “ Sustaining Peace and Security through Stakeholder Engagements- the role of the Armed Forces”, goes slightly ...
The collective spending of all 20 teams in Spain's top flight was €26.1m, making it the 16th highest-spending league in ...