“The Mubarak era is back,” the police officer told Sayyed, a 23-year-old from the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya, as he was interrogating him in a Cairo police station earlier this month. Police had ...

A DECADE and a half after Nigeria returned to democratic rule, the people are still reeling under the jackboot of soldiers across the country. From Lagos to Kaduna, Odi to Badagry and Jos to Enugu, ...