The Uromi 16 and the problem with Nigeria, By Reuben Abati 

The killing last Friday of 16 Northern travellers along the Uromi-Ubiaja road in Edo State is an event that will live in infamy. Twenty-five travellers from Port Harcourt going home to the North, Kano specifically for the Eid el-fitri celebrations were intercepted by vigilantes along the way on the suspicion that they were kidnappers and they were lynched to death. There were 25 of them travelling together, nine of them managed to survive, but for the majority, it was an encounter…