There was huge optimism when Muhammadu Buhari was first elected in 2015 When he steps down next week President Muhammadu Buhari will be leaving Nigerians less secure, poorer and more…
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Chidi Odinkalu On August 17, 1980, the 6th Commonwealth Law Conference convened in Lagos, then capital of Nigeria. After the arrival courtesies were dispensed with, it fell upon Shehu Shagari,…
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Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo/ There is a joke in the United States that every citizen of the country has an FBI file. That might have been the dream of the first…
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Why is America congratulating the winner of this disastrous election? By Chimamanda Adichie Dear president biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential…
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Olusegun Obasanjo has had mixed results as a mediator of intractable conflicts across Africa since he stepped down as Nigeria’s president in 2007, although he has never tired of trying.…
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