A former military officer convicted of sodomy by a General Court Martial and whose conviction was upheld by Nigeria's Supreme Court never served his five-year prison sentence.
Instead, he received a presidential pardon, had his military dismissal converted to voluntary retirement, regained his benefits, and eventually became Dean of a law faculty.
PREMIUM TIMES investigates the extraordinary journey of Bello Magaji—and the questions it raises about justice, accountability, and influence in Nigeria.
Bringing your children to Nigeria from a flourishing Western country so they can be “disciplined” is first class mental illness . If you can’t raise your children properly by yourself in whatever country you find yourself in, maybe you shouldn’t have children at all.
BA - English and Literary Studies
MA - English Language (Critical Discourse)
PhD - Corpus Stylistics
Academic Publications - 10
Citations 5 +
Certifications - TEFL, Nigerian National code for health research ethics,
2024 Ife Institute Fellow
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A rescued victim claims that Kaduna State is paying bandits monthly with cash & supplies in exchange for peace. Katsina State has also been accused of making LG budgetary provisions for bandits. Zamfara State appears to be battling a form of institutionalised banditry, with critics alleging that bandit apologists have infiltrated the state government, since Matawalle.
Most worrying, the national security policy on banditry appears more focused on avoiding the ethnic profiling of the Fulani man than on eliminating Fulani terrorists.
All these factors help kingpins with recruitment.
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I have been to South Africa many times, but only for conferences. Unfortunately, we were unlikely to meet, because I stayed in the parts of South Africa owned by your actual oppressors: the landowners you are too afraid to confront, and the places you could not afford to stay in.
I also paid a visit to Madiba’s statue because, as a child, I stood in queues, like millions of African children of my generation, to donate my school money to the campaign for his freedom. 😁
Kawai wasu tsirarun ƴan iska su dinga shigowa gari suna kashe mutane, ko su tare hanya su kama mutane su dinga duka kuma a zuba musu ido ana kallo? The more you think about the whole thing, the more ridiculous it becomes.
In Zamfara, bandits gave captives knives and forced them to fight and kill one another. If they refused, the bandits killed them themselves.
There was also a village where 38 hostages were brutally slaughtered after the full ransom demanded was not paid.
These are daily realities in communities grappling with the menace of kidnapping and banditry.