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When Headlines Become Weapons: Why Ndi Igbo Will Not Be Silent Again

There is a reason some of us went cold the moment we saw the New York Times headline suggesting that a “screwdriver trader in Onitsha” influenced a US missile strike in Nigeria. It was not a shock. It was a memory. We have seen this movie before. In the mid-1960s, we have not forgotten how the BBC notoriously framed Nigeria’s first coup as an “Igbo coup.” It was a lazy label, but it stuck. That single act of narrative simplification did not rema…
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The Whistler Nigeria broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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