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What Fisayo Soyombo Teaches Us About Nigeria

How does one explain that after his recent three-part story began to be published, it came to light that Soyombo could be arrested for his journalism. Why should a man kick the doctor operating to save his life?

Eke Jude
Oct 30, 2019
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Fisayo Soyombo is a Nigerian investigative journalist.
Fisayo Soyombo is a Nigerian investigative journalist.

The nation did not tremble because it all felt familiar. Everyone knows how corrupt the Nigerian police and prison system is, so when Fisayo Soyombo started to publish his three-part investigation into their sordid operations, it wasn’t an expose. Rather, it was an ordering, a kind of scientific mode…

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