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The $182 Million “Thank You Card”: How Halliburton Taught Nigeria to Pay for Its Own Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe with Historic Capital (Video)
https://videopress.com/v/rjBepPiG?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true A masterclass in multinational generosity, offshore creativity, and the beautiful art of the victimless crime — if you don’t count the victims. There is a particular kind of audacity that deserves not merely condemnation but a standing ovation, a Champagne toast, and perhaps a Harvard Business School case study. The Halliburton-KBR bribery scandal involving …
Paralysis of decision making
Write about a time when you didn't take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? I have never not made a decision and if incorrect I live with the consequences but a decision is always made. No paralysis of decision making.
Subsidy Gone, Reality Arrived: The Reform That Changed the Narrative—Not the Country by Lawson Akhigbe
The government spokesman’s essay reads like a victory lap taken halfway through a marathon. Yes, the sentence delivered by Bola Ahmed Tinubu on inauguration day—“the fuel subsidy is gone”—was dramatic. But drama is not the same as delivery, and arithmetic is not the same as economics lived by citizens. Let’s separate three things the spokesman …
Comparing Erasure of Black Populations and Histories: South America vs. North America (Primarily the United States) by Lawson Akhigbe
The concept of “erasure” in the context of Black populations in the Americas refers to processes—demographic, cultural, narrative, and institutional—that diminish the visible presence, historical contributions, genetic legacy, or contemporary recognition of people of African descent. In South America, as detailed in Lawson Akhigbe’s article “The Erased Majority,” erasure often manifests through deliberate demographic engineering …
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