Lai MohammedThe readers may be wondering why I say again. It is to connect the past with the present. It is about Lai Mohammed’s unrelenting efforts to hamstring the media since 2017. It is not unusual in these climes to have spacecraft in readiness to transport leaders into the clouds for them to lose their heads.
Exactly 32 years ago, I wrote in these pages, drawing the attention of President Ibrahim Babangida to the cheer orchestra and the clapping crowd around him. The piece was captioned “Amicus Plato…” It reads as follows: x
“In a period of disquiet, all manner of suggestion and criticisms inundate those interested in public affairs. Usually, attention shifts to criticisms to see what can be learned from upbraiding, to see who is making the criticisms and to ferret the motives of the critics. Is the criticism in the normal course of duty of professional critics? When does a critic become a security risk? In the period of unease
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Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of Ghana’s The Insight Newspaper, is most probably little known to us in Nigeria. But last week, he spoke from Accra where he is domiciled, and became an instant hit on the social media. He may not be resident in Nigeria, but in this age of globalisation and real-time information dissemination, Pratt is very well informed about Nigeria’s sociopolitics, especially because of the hallowed place Nigeria occupies, not just in West Africa, but across the continent and beyond.
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As guest on a current affairs programme on a Ghanaian television station recently, Pratt found himself dilating the recent virtual meeting between the United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and two African leaders, Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. It was an opportunity for Nigerians in particular to hear from a brother nation, impressions and perspectives about where we have found ourselves.
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Nigeria Bureau
ABUJA,
(CAJ News) – THE new United States (US) administration is mending relations with Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and biggest economy.
Relations were strained under the government of Donald Trump, who led America from 2017.
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State in President Joe Biden’s administration, highlighted the importance of the relationship between the two countries during a call to the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama.
Ned Price, the US Department of State spokesperson, said Blinken outlined a holistic approach to the US-Nigeria partnership based on the shared values of democracy, respect for human rights and robust people-to-people relations.
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