Make I beg, Nigerians beware the disinformation campaign
Supporters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar during a campaign rally in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria on January 18, 2023 ahead of February 25 presidential election. PHOTO | PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP
You have heard it before, everything in Nigeria is BIG! Home to the largest population on the African continent and boasting the world’s biggest Black population — some 200,000,000 souls — Nigeria does everything in superlatives.
As a young man in the 1970s, I once arrived in Lagos to read in the local daily that a convoy of 250 tractors had been offloaded at the port and driven towards the Ministry of Agriculture, but lost their way, never to be found.
