A Tragicomedy! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Legit I can boldly say that the farce of a nation called Nigeria is nothing but a tragicomedy. I’m insisting the nation is a farce because history tells me so. Apart from that, except for the first republic election, which the British duly supervised, which produced a prime minister, which other head of…

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Assange in Nigeria! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Britannica Julian Assange is an Australian writer, journalist, publisher and activist. He founded Wikileaks in 2006. In 2010, Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him for allegations of sexual assault. He managed to get into the Ecuadorian embassy in the U.K. in 2012. He was even granted Ecuadorian citizenship while in political asylum…

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Nomba! – Adewale Sobowale

These are definitely trying times in Nigeria. Almost everything is being politicised. Before the Anambra state elections, there were reports of the army offering medical services to primary school pupils. I don’t want to discuss whether or not the soldiers were supposed to be there at that point. However, the fact is that some parents…

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