BY RICHARD MADUKU Something many foreigners would swear was impossible even in a dream or in fairy land is happening in Nigeria today. It is not the free fall of the country into the poverty capital of the world. Many outsiders can hardly believe that a nation blessed with so much natural and human resources like Nigeria could become a place where the majority would be gnashing their teeth in hunger and converting the same into fasting and praying. It is also not the transformation of the stick-carrying rustic…
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Omo-Agege Show Of Shame
An Article by Richard Maduku Many Urhobo men and women were in anguish as the rest of Nigerians were celebrating the new democracy day on 12 June, 2019. This was not because they preferred the old democracy day (29 May) to the new one. It was also not because a band of armed Fulani herdsmen had almost wiped out the population of an entire Urhobo village as they did in Mali recently. It is true Fulani vandals from God-knows-where have been killing, raping women and maiming Urhobo people as well…
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