Nigeria: Child's Right to Nothing

26 February 2014

WE are in a landmark year. We mark the centenary. The National Conference is Nigeria's future. We are building the future with minimal attention to children who the United Nations Assembly started celebrating in 1954, 60 years ago.

Our children, our leaders say, are our future. Volumes of speeches, deliberately long and windy to provide cover for their emptiness, help our leaders celebrate their elevated duplicity.

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