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Western family separation policies by Lawson Akhigbe
Family separation here refers primarily to the forcible or policy-driven splitting of parents/guardians from minor children during border processing, detention, or deportation proceedings. It does not include natural separations from conflict, voluntary migration, or standard child welfare removals (though overlaps exist). Globally, no major democracy has replicated the U.S. scale of systematic, deterrent-driven separations of …
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The “Art of the Deal” in Iran:A 10-Step Guide to Solving Nothing, Magnificently by Lawson Akhigbe
🌍 Geopolitics & Grand Delusions How to simultaneously declare total victory, admit partial defeat, threaten a country into talks, threaten it out of talks, and still somehow call it a strategy — all before lunch. There is an old Persian proverb — and given that this article is about Iran, it seems appropriate to start …
The Police Is Not Your Friend: Nigeria’s Station of Extortion by Lawson Akhigbe
You have been wronged. Someone has cheated you, threatened you, or done something that makes your blood boil. You want justice, swift, visible, and humiliating for the other party. So you do what feels natural. You go to the police station. This is where the education begins. The Welcome The officer at the counter greets …
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What makes you nervous? Nerves of steel and walking on the path of righteousness
INEC’s Farcical Self-Acquittal of Amupitan by Farooq Kperogi
INEC said it investigated its chairman and found him not guilty of the allegation that he tweeted partisan support for Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election cycle. If na you nko? How can you fail an exam you set and graded? How can you find yourself guilty in a court you established, where both the …
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