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Nigeria: When Corruption Fights Back

November 2, 2019 5:59 pm

There is this question that always lingers in my mind, and I try as much as possible to find answers, internally. The challenges facing our country are issues that we discuss in our everyday engagements with families, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. The challenges are many; we have the challenges of insecurity, religious extremism, poor infrastructure, cross-border crises and economy, etc. When President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, the issues he promised to tackle are the challenges of insecurity, corruption and to revamp the economy.

One troubling challenge is corruption. Corruption is virtually found in the citizens everyday life; …

'Nigeria Is A Lawless Country', Sowore Fights For His Life

Video: ‘Nigeria Is A Lawless Country’, Sowore

October 1, 2019 1:21 pm

Omoyele Sowore; a Nigerian human rights activist and former presidential aspirant has declared Nigeria a lawless country.

Sowore was seen struggling for his life with security agents in their bid to hold him down and take him away from his fans.

“Nigeria is a lawless country, you can see they have kept me here for over six months. See the way they are dragging me around like a criminal even when I did nothing to them. I love my country and I will fight and die for this country”.

While Sowore and the security agents were having their fracas, …

Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

September 14, 2019 10:54 am

Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister with right-wing leadership and by repeatedly besting rivals with deft political moves, but he will have to pull another rabbit out of his hat in Tuesday’s elections.

The 69-year-old is fighting his second election in five months with a potential corruption indictment looming.

After April polls, he suffered one of the biggest defeats in his political career when his Likud party along with its right-wing and religious allies won a majority, but he failed to form a coalition.

Rather than risk allowing another candidate to have a shot at doing so, he …