By Umaru Fofana I still cannot come to terms with the fact that a journalist – or any other citizen for that matter – can be arrested at the say-so of the president of a country that claims to be democratic without clearly-stated reasons – state of emergency or not. Then such an arrest is not given the backing of a court of competent jurisdiction even if it is days after the
By Umaru Fofana There are certain things in life that get determined by our circumstance or the situation we find ourselves in. That could be for good or for bad. With the passage of time it is unimaginable that the man who would later become head of the Catholic Church was a Hitlerite. Pope Benedict was an active member of the Nazi Youth Wing during the Second World War. He