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Fulani Herdsmen & The British Legacy of Guilt

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 4, 2018
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis
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Fulani Herdsmen & the British Legacy of Guilt

“Guilt by community association” (GBCA) is back in Nigeria in fresh form in 2018. Not by the actions of a foreign colonialist. But those of the local Nigerian auto-colonialists courtesy Fulani herdsmen affairs. In the colonial state of Nigeria, under British rule, was the chief means by which the Nigerian staffed police force secured conformity and order. The method of choice was community arrest and faux crime taxation. (more…)

Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 8 – Bailiffs

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:January 11, 2017
Post category:Social Crisis
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 8 – Bailiffs

Fraternities in Nigeria are now specialists in accumulating “financial bounties” with their leaders appropriating them; it is tantamount to corporate malfeasance. It may be unfortunate if not tragic that the founders of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) established them them noble intentions. Alas, the rouges within the UCGFs embody the very antics of “corporate malfeasance”. (more…)

Unionised Cultists: Okada Riders Rule with Impunity

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:October 22, 2015
Post category:Corruption Elections
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Trade unions are purely or originally organisations that were created and existed to protect the rights of workers especially from the exploitation and insensitivity of the owners of capital, their employers. Things like annual paid holidays, adequate working conditions, fair pay, secure working contracts, the 35-40 hour week etc. are the gains of trade union activities. However, there are malignant and highly deviant mutations of trade union or its ethos going on in Nigeria and elsewhere in the form of gang or cult activities. (more…)

Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 26, 2015
Post category:Social Crisis
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Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion

University campus grown fraternities (UCGFs) recently have, as a rule and mode of evolution, taken their preaching about government “badness” and their prescriptions of the “common good” to ever-dizzying heights. UCGFs have the fullest right to critique any part or aspect of the government it seems worth their while. However, for the corruption that happens within the realm of the government, UCGFs are vocal. The UCGFs have to look at their reckless yet systematic practices of corruption within the boundaries of their organisations. UCGFs are a sophisticated corruption virus in society. (more…)