Author: Emmanuel Ogebe

The last week of May holds several dates of significance – the one-year anniversary of the police murder of African American George Floyd, the Children’s Day and the 6th anniversary of Major-General Buhari’s current tenure in office. In a curious manner, these trifectas are all somewhat interrelated. Nigeria marked Children’s Day on 27 May. However, in Nigeria children have nothing to celebrate. Rather than being treated as leaders of tomorrow, they are being relegated to the lowly status of leaders of “no tomorrow” — with a barren future in a hopeless nation. As children in the ‘80s, we were deceived…