Dele Ogun’s “Culprits: The People and the Paper That Made Nigeria” is not a history book. It is a murder investigation. And the body is still warm. For two hundred years, we have been told that the Fulani jihad was a religious reformation. For a hundred years, we have been told that the 1914 Amalgamation…
Photo credit: Canada’s National Observer An international human panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal. CTV News reports that the Permanent People’s Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared children and unmarked graves at Canada’s residential school sites, as…
Photo credit: Facebook A new Brunswick ruling that Aboriginal title cannot be declared over private land has been allowed to stand by the Supreme Court of Canada, giving British Columbia an avenue to win its appeal in the landmark Cowichan Tribes case, BC’s attorney general has said. The Canadian Press reports Niki Sharma as saying the High Court’s refusal to hear an…
Photo credit: The Guardian A child injured by a grenade raised suspicions of Ebola infection while on the operating table. The deadly hemorrhagic fever is spreading in the midst of a raging war with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, many of whom are children. The outbreak is truly a nightmare, says Dr Babou Rukengeza. Sweden Herald reports that…
The Biafra secession was declared precisely fifty years ago. Most people are aware of what led to that action. While it lasted, the Igbo suffered so much. At the end of the day, General Ojukwu had to flee. He was possibly acting in accordance to a reggae song, ‘He who fights and runs away lives…
I am going through a feverish period. Since there is no one with me, I just started toying with various things which my illness might result into. If one is going to meet his God, he should not lie. OK! I was thinking of the grim reaper, death. The Yoruba even celebrate death by referring…
Once upon a – not too long ago – time, one olori ebi had to retire. You know life is just like the army barracks. Soldiers go and soldiers come, but the barracks remain! Even before the predecessor left office, the successor’s name had been announced. Now, there were so many anti-people things that were…
