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Tragic happenings in Nigeria!
October was supposed to be the month of freedom for Nigeria as the West African country got its independence from Great Britain on October 1, 1960. However, for many families it’s been a month of anguish. This is because they have lost loved ones to abduction and death. On independence day itself, some gunmen abducted…
Ethiopia again demands access to the Red Sea
Photo credit: Arab News Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, despite neighbouring countries saying at a summit on Sunday that responsibility for the sea rests with the states along its shores and warning of the risk of regional conflict. The Associated Press…
Chapter 5 – The Political Economy of Failure
Nigeria – A Season of Serial BetrayalsA Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Failure Is Not an Accident – It Is an Economy Nigeria’s failures are not random.They are not mysterious.They are not the result of “bad luck,” “bad leaders,” or “bad culture.” Nigeria fails because failure is profitable for the people who manage…
International Operation Uncovers Smuggling of Drugs, Weapons, …
Photo credit: BBC Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and counterfeit goods, as well as trafficking of irregular migrants, were uncovered during a week-long operation dubbed Balkan Bridge II that ended on Sunday, head of the General Directorate Border Police Anton Zlatanov and Deputy Director of the National Customs Agency Stefan Bakalov reported during a press briefing at the…
Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast
Photo credit: BBC Around 150 anti-migrant demonstrators gathered in a south coast town to stop a group of migrants, who had crossed the English Channel in a small boat, being brought ashore by the RNLI. BBC reports that some flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off at…
Chapter 4 – The Collapse of Institutions
Nigeria – A Season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online Opening Frame: When Institutions Collapse, Nations Don’t Fall – They Fade Nigeria’s crisis is often described as corruption, bad leadership, insecurity, or poverty. But beneath all these symptoms lies a deeper, more dangerous truth: Nigeria’s institutions have collapsed – not suddenly, but slowly,…
Chapter 3 – The Anatomy of A Broken Citizenship
Ngeria – A season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Citizenship Is the First Institution Before a nation can build courts, parliaments, refineries, or armies, it must build citizens. Citizens are the first institution of any republic – the foundation upon which all other institutions stand. When citizenship breaks, everything else follows:…