Well, this madness could have happened in Onitsha or Abuja or Ugborodo, I console myself after waiting thirty minutes for them to pass.

NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

That hope, or faith, brought 1m people to Onitsha in eastern Nigeria for the beatification of a little-known Nigerian priest who died in a monastery in Britain 34 years ago.

ECONOMIST: The pope in Nigeria