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The Thread: “The watchers must be watched” | Making a case for NGO accountability

In Nigeria, all yahoo yahoo is not online. It is painful to admit, but as a people, we are creative at cutting corners and sewing extra lining into the pockets of our trousers to better ferry the loot. At the top, we have budget padding or grass cutting. Mid level, we have a plethora of Ponzi... Read More

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November 8, 2016

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Farooq Kperogi: Portrayal of Nigerian heroes in America’s news media

by Farooq Kperogi Many Nigerians, especially those on social media, have by now read about Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, a Nigerian doctor in America who, along with his partner surgeon Dr. Darrell Cass, caused a baby girl to be born twice. A deadly tumor was first removed from the baby’s brain when she was just 16... Read More

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