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  • 2 weeks ago | premiumtimesng.com | Wole Olaoye

    Every corridor of power is strewn with its own peculiar coterie of grovellers. They may come under various designations — Special Assistant, Press Secretary, Special Adviser, Commissioner or some other official nomenclature — what unites them is their blind and unthinking resort to extra-legal measures in defence of their principals. Some public officials who don’t know any better, actually enjoy having a gang of attack dogs to do battle against real and imagined foes.

  • 3 weeks ago | newsdiaryonline.com | Wole Olaoye |Danlami Nmodu

    In Nigeria, you can be sentenced to death for defending yourself against an assailant. Forget all that you’ve read to the contrary. If your life is threatened by an armed herdsman, run for cover. Or simply allow the vagabond to slice your throat. You’re better dead and classified as a victim than to retaliate and be condemned to death for fighting for your life.

  • 3 weeks ago | premiumtimesng.com | Wole Olaoye

    How is a layman supposed to interpret all this? The grandiose legal system from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court failed Citizen Jackson.

  • 3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Wole Olaoye

    Nigeria, March 30 -- In Nigeria, you can be sentenced to death for defending yourself against an assailant. Forget all that you've read to the contrary. If your life is threatened by an armed herdsman, run for cover. Or simply allow the vagabond to slice your throat. You're better dead and classified as a victim than to retaliate and be condemned to death for fighting for your life.

  • 1 month ago | htsyndication.com | Wole Olaoye

    Nigeria, March 24 -- When Nigeria's President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on oil-rich Rivers State last week, the issue took over every waking minute of Nigerians at home and abroad. Someday, historians are going to make a meal of the various views, declarations and subterfuges at play. By the time the true story of what transpired is fully told, most, if not all the dramatis personae, would have been long dead. What will outlive them is the verdict of history.

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As President Tinubu prepares to rejig the second half of his first term, perhaps he may want to have a firm handshake with history by attempting a re-engineering of the Nigerian project. https://t.co/wY2F8Q5ePv @YomiLayinka @omodagburewe @chijiokeeke @CharlesAniagol1

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20 Apr 25

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