Post Tagged with: "Violence"

Nigeria: An argument or a wife-battering controversy?

Nigeria: An argument or a wife-battering controversy?

1 / June 2, 2011 12:17 pm

This opinion piece was originally published at http://www.akinblog.nl/ presaging a hopefully intelligent debate on the issue of wife-battering and society’s response to that issue. A tabloid frenzy On Twitter and Facebook, my fellow Nigerians are getting excited over a case [...]

In Defence of NYSC

In Defence of NYSC

6 / April 24, 2011 9:24 pm

Tragedy is a depressant, often leading people overcome by emotions to the wrong  and often very hasty resolutions. Like all observers of the aftermath of last week’s presidential elections in Nigeria, I was saddened by the loss of innocent lives [...]

A Lunch in Jos

A Lunch in Jos

0 / July 22, 2010 10:50 am

It didn’t take me long to locate him at Rayfield where he teaches in a private school. Once upon a time, he was in Riyom, a local government that has now made a name for itself in the spots of [...]