Tag: injustice

SDG

The SDG Index; the hattrick Nigeria can’t seem to score

First, some backstory. Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations has always been very hands-on with global social and economic growth so it came as no surprise when the…

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PDP

PDP has just reported the FG to the UN, but it might be too little too late

The main opposition party in Nigeria the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suddenly woken up to its responsibilities of strengthening democracy by checkmating the excesses of the ruling All Progressives…

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[The Injustice Blog] The NBS report on the Nigerian Police is absolutely correct

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a recent report tagged ‘Corruption in Nigeria - Bribery, as Experienced by the…

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[The Injustice Blog] Is Ambode’s Lagos working for all?

The Lagos state Governor Mr Akinwunmi Ambode in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, said, "As we collectively face the challenge to make Lagos a better place to live…

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Opinion: Welcome to Nigeria, the animal kingdom

by Michael Ace Perhaps you might want to remind me I am as well a Nigerian. The dirt I smell every time I breathe tells me that. What about the…

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[The Injustice Blog] The DSS has held a pastor in custody over ‘social media comment’ for months

The Department of State Services (DSS) is in the news again. Two days ago the family of one Chisom Anaele a native of Ikeduru local government area of Imo state…

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Ondo election: Mimiko accuses INEC of injustice

Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko has said the Independent National Electoral Commission ought to postpone the governorship election in the state owing to court cases that followed the Peoples Democratic…

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Reno Omokri: Buhari, Jonathan and a redefinition of change

by Reno Omokri Name your dog Buhari and you will be diligently prosecuted in today’s Nigeria but kill a harmless wife of an evangelist preaching the Gospel of Jesus and…

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The Thread: What’s Twitter feminism good for? Absolutely everything!

We love it when events on Twitter culminate in learning moments. Following the brouhaha (who uses that word?) about Izien, over a period of three days, Joachim MacEbong, who tweets @je_mc2 is…

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Niger Delta militants

Ex-militants to FG: ‘Why you shouldn’t negotiate with Avengers’

Former militants operating under the aegis of the National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators (NCNDE-A), on Monday, called on the federal government not to dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers,…

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Opinion: Discrimination against females at the Nigerian Bar

by Zubaida Mahmoud It reminds me of the Senior FEMALE Law School Lecturer that not only addressed us as ‘gentlemen in skirts’ but always made it a point to correct anyone that…

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Opinion: Is homosexuality Nigeria’s biggest problem now?

by Moyo Salvador President Goodluck Jonathan has finally signed off on a bill to criminalize homosexuality with an attendant 14 year sentence for defaulters.  A large number of Nigerians have…

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Opinion: Get tired of being tired and do something worthwhile

by Kehinde Ajose Ours is a generation of tired individuals who are tired about the narratives of their lives, tired about the country they live in, tired about the injustices…

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PHOTOS: Lance Armstrong meets the woman who brought him down

Lance Armstrong has spent the past year dealing with the consequences of his drug cheating but here, in a quaint little town in Florida, he is about to face the…

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Pius Adesanmi: In memory of Festus Iyayi – Convoys are “Nigeria’s worst postcolonial tragedy”

by Pius Adesanmi President Obama’s convoy comprises his limo, a decoy limo, one or two media buses and a few police outriders on motorcycles. That is the length of the…

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Japheth Omojuwa: Charity, as the opportunity cost of poverty (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa We are not better off collecting stipends from our politicians than we’d be if we freed up our national wealth building infrastructure that’d benefit far more people.…

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