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Vol 56 No 7

Published 3rd April 2015


Nigeria

The rigging in Rivers

Lekia Nkirine didn't stand a chance. He was shot in the chest at close range at six in the morning on election day when 50 thugs attacked the compound of Joe Poroma, the Commissioner of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation in the Rivers State government. Armed with shotguns, machetes and broken bottles, the

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