Stephen Ellis

Activities of ‘ancestors’ of Hushpuppi and Woodberry since the 1930s

In June, Ramoni Olorunwa/Igbalode Abbas, “Hushpuppi” for style, and Olalekan Jacob Ponle, Woodberry for short,…

419 Cases, Other Scams in Nigeria Date Back to the 1930s

Financial crimes, notoriously called 419 in Nigeria, have their ancestry in the colonial days, as…