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Biafra: Group accuses Justice Nyako of doing Buhari’s bidding by John Owen Nwachukwu A coalition of professionals in Nigeria and the Diaspora, Igbo Ekunie Initiative, IEI, has described Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja as President Muhammadu Buhari’s...

This North African country is a bastion of stability in a region plagued by political turmoil and Islamist violence By Dan Peleschuk, OZY Author During an age of increasing autocracy around the world, Algeria’s ruling regime doesn’t inspire much confidence. In...

Threats, attacks to blame for drop in media freedom by Collins Omulo Media freedom has declined in the past one year owing to threats, intimidation and attacks on journalists by security forces, politicians and hired goons. The country fell one place in...

The late Professor Chinua Achebe wrote: The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership

As well as being ruled by a man with fifteen wives, Swaziland is a poor country with the highest rate of HIV infection in the world.

Due processes were deliberately ignored to pave the way for the appointment of the president’s kinsman who was unceremoniously asked to retire from service five years ago following his failure to pass compulsory promotion exams on three consecutive occasions.

Cameroon forces retreat after attacks by separatists From BBC World Service The Cameroonian military has 26.4.2018 suffered tactical defeat and been forced to withdraw from the north-western town of Belo. This was after it was attacked by anglophone separatists fighting for an...

The lower house is forced to summon Nigeria's incompetent president and has called for the sack of service chiefs over the spate of killings across the country.

Most significant human rights issues have included extrajudicial and arbitrary killings; disappearances and arbitrary detentions.

This mirrors attempts throughout history by bureaucrats seeking, and failing, to criminalize speech that reveals their own failings.