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#EndSARS protest and the making of dictators

BY OGUNTOYE OPEYEMI We can’t shy away from the fact that every citizen across the globe wants a better life. Also, nothing can be farther than the truth as we

The dictator in every Nigerian

We all detest dictatorship when we are the victims of its reverberations, but when we wear the jackboots and are handing down orders, censures; singling shots, cutting down, attacking and

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Nigeria’s gradual return to dictatorship

Nigerians are not students of history. History, in Nigeria, is so contentious, it is not even taught in our schools. However, we educate our future through the study of history.

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Revisiting ‘democracy and dictatorship’

Let us begin by quickly recalling two bits of Nigeria’s recent history. First, at the close of 1983, a military junta overthrew and supplanted the elected civilian government of Shehu

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