“I remember how he raised his head to look at me while he was in that painful condition…then he put his head back…it pains me, how much my boy suffered. I have struggled with nightmares for a long time.” The little boy being mourned by the father above, was not killed by the bandits, hunger or disease. He was felled by a stray bullet from soldiers needlessly firing their guns.
By Farooq A. Kperogi Information minister Lai Mohammed instructed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to penalize Trust TV with a N5 million fine for its factual March 5 documentary titled “Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story” after former BBC journalist Kadaria Ahmed wrote a tendentious, professionally questionable screed questioning a subsequent July 25 BBC Africa Eye…