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My Failure Started in the Kitchen

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By Socrates Mbamalu
| sarabamag.com
My father’s perfume is strong and fiery. Long after he leaves the house, his perfume lingers as if he left it to watch what we do when he’s not around. There’s no day he has not worn a perfume. All his clothes are laden with it, his skin too. When my father was in the house, his presence was stifling. My brother and I would stay in our room. Whenever he had an occasion, we would wait for him to leave the house.
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Nigeria’s military is broken

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By Socrates Mbamalu
| Mail & Guardian Verified
Late last week, more than a hundred people were killed in fighting between armed bandits and a vigilante group in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state. The Nigerian military, tasked with maintaining security in this part of the country, was nowhere to be seen. Instead, citizens were told to fend for themselves. “People should learn to be courageous enough to confront the devils,” Katsina’s secretary to the state government, Muntari Lawal, said in the aftermath of the attack. “Don’t wait for government.
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Who is Peter Obi, and why is he making the Nigerian establishment so nervous? Original

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By Socrates Mbamalu
| Mail & Guardian Verified
It is not easy to get 2 000 Nigerians to sing the national anthem as if they mean it. On a Monday evening earlier this month, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, Peter Obi did exactly that. He was there to give a speech on the role of the Nigerian diaspora in civic leadership, as part of his global tour.
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