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Bukayo Saka became the fifth player in Arsenal’s history to record 50 Premier League assists last night. His corner set up Havertz’s winner. That was the 50th. The four ahead of him are Dennis Bergkamp on 94, Thierry Henry on 74, Cesc Fabregas on 70,...
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THE FOREST IS STILL OPEN Gunmen abducted 45 students and teachers in Oyo on Friday while Boko Haram took 42 children in Borno the same day, with a school principal filming a plea from captivity. NINE DAYS Seventeen police officers killed in a terrorist attack on the...
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Nigeria ran two official stories this weekend. One involved precision strikes and credit upgrades. The other involved 87 children and nine days of silence. Both are true. Only one made the press conference. Here’s what happened. The forest is still open....
Governance
Nigeria has spent twelve years and thirty million dollars announcing that schools are safe. The forest disagrees every time. On Friday morning, gunmen arrived at Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State. They came during lessons....
Governance
When the Nigerian state waited nine days to confirm the deaths of seventeen officers at a counter-terrorism training school, it was making a choice. The choice is worth naming. Seventeen police officers died at the Nigerian Army Special Forces School in Buni Yadi,...