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Nigeria’s ‘revolutionaries’ win early rounds, By Sonala Olumhense

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First, 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 […]

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As President Buhari Joins PDP, By Sonala Olumhense

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In 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, […]

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Four fingers for Decree Four?, By Sonala Olumhense

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Some 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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