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Custody, death and the burden of the State

  By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D   They entered government custody alive. Whatever offence they were suspected of committing, whatever eventually…

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X-raying General Musa’s national security message

  By Rekpene Bassey   Nigeria’s Defence Minister, General Christopher Musa (retd), has delivered a message that Nigerians have every…

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Wike, the Rainbow Coalition and the politics of performance

By Dr Sampson Parker, DSSRS, FAIPHP In a political environment frequently dominated by promises, rhetoric and partisan posturing, Chief (Barr.)…

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The voodoo economics of fuel subsidy

  By Tony Edemenaha   In our villages, when the elders wanted to settle a dispute, they did not begin…

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Targeting and tracking terrorists’ money

  By Rekpene Bassey   Terrorism has never depended on guns, ideology and willing recruits alone. It requires money. Vehicles…

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Are the police afraid of cameras?

  By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D   A camera should not frighten an honest police officer. A police uniform should not…

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Counting the spoils of corruption

  By Rekpene Bassey   In May 2016, Britain’s then Prime Minister, David Cameron, was caught on camera describing Nigeria…

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Rethinking suicide as a crime

By Rekpene Bassey Nigeria is confronting an old law with a new question: when a citizen survives an attempt to…

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The burgeoning Nigerian kidnap economy

By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D Kidnapping in Nigeria is no longer merely a crime; it is fast becoming an economy. There…

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Subsidy removal: How Nigeria can turn the petrol reform into national dividend

  By Dr Sampson Parker   Nigeria has crossed one of the most difficult economic bridges in its history. The…

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