The man from Katsina
I remember decades ago reading Adaora Lily Ulasi’s work,
Many Thing You No Understand, when I read the work, who would have thought about the strange happenings in my nation Nigeria, Adaora who passed on in 2016 also wrote
Many Thing Begin for Change, and
The Man from Sagamu
Let me say that as we keep mute or play mute, as we pay lip service things are changing, and the resultant effect is one that we may not be able to cope with. And I would draw inference from
The Man from Sagamu, first published in 1977.
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Published 11 December 2020
Edo State is in the news again as kidnappers have found safe haven forests by the sides of highways in some parts of the state, ADEYINKA ADEDIPE writes that many motorists and commuters have fallen into the hands of the evil men
Drivers and commuters have continued to face a harrowing experience in the hands of daredevil kidnappers on the Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi Road, which serves as a link between the southern and the northern parts of Nigeria. The last two weeks have witnessed some of the most heartless attacks on unsuspecting members of the public, who are either killed or held captive in the forest for huge ransoms. What is more heart-wrenching is the fact that some of the victims are the downtrodden, who cannot afford the ransoms that the men of the underworld are demanding.