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As of May 31, 2021, a United States based magazine (Foreign Affairs) owned by the Council on Foreign Relations, published an article which called Nigeria a failed state.
The expert view was co-authored by a Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, John Campbell and the Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, Robert I. Rotberg.
The article hinged Nigeria’s failure on three issues: Insecurity, Corruption, and the Economy.
But security challenge was its major ground for concluding that the country had failed.
According to the article , “If a state’s first obligation to those it governs is to provide for their security and maintain a monopoly on the use of violence, then Nigeria has failed, even if some other aspects of the state still function.
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ENDSARS/LEKKI SHOOTING
A recent report by the US government faulting claims that the Nigerian Army killed protesters at Lekki Tollgate during the #EndSARS protests, is not a recipe for closure but could facilitate one, writes Louis Achi
In human affairs, closure means finality â a letting go of what once was. Finding closure implies a complete acceptance of what has happened and transitioning to something new. In other words, closure describes the ability to go beyond imposed limitations in order to find different possibilities.
Often, people grieve before they could achieve a sense of closure. But ultimately, justice is the best facilitator of closure. The EndSARS protests, last year, captured a sad human chapter in the troubling evolution of the Nigerian state. It now requires closure.
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US Department of States says it could not verify if #EndSARS protesters were killed on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate.
The US department made this known in a report tagged ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria’.
A copy of the report was obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday.
The report said though soldiers fired ammunition into the air to disperse protesters, the number of fatalities could not be verified.
Part of the report read, “On October 20, members of the security forces enforced curfew by firing shots into the air to disperse protesters, who had gathered at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos to protest abusive practices by the Nigerian Police Force’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad.