"The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed of yams from Nwakibie was the worst year in living memory. Nothing happened at its proper time; it was either too early or too late. It seemed as if the world had gone mad...1/1 "The first rains were late and when they came, lasted only a brief moment. The drought continued for eight market weeks and the yams were killed. The year had gone mad. When the rains finally returned, they fell as it had never fallen before....1/2

Death or destruction of public and private property is not the objective of the protest. The protest is a statement to our rapacious political class of all divides, whether APC, LP or PDP that they are not emperors who conquered us in war. Sovereignty belongs to us, the people. Politicians in power constantly make peaceful change difficult by weaponizing poverty. They ensure that voters have barely enough to eat to take them to the next circle of voting when they will be given N1000, plus indomie or spaghetti and key soap to "vote" for the predators.

@daily_trust EDITORIAL: Nigeria: A Nation In Search Of Its Leader.

On his short tour of Kuje Correctional Centre, following an attack on the facility by members of ISWAP, during which hundreds of inmates escaped, President @MBuhari could not hide his disappointment.... President @MBuhari could not hide his disappointment with the whole system of security intelligence in the country.
And his words were appropriately probing. “How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility?