The Five-Million-Pound Shell Game: How Nigel Farage Shifting Grounds on a Crypto Fortune Shows a Blatant Disregard for Accountability

It is often said that a week is a long time in politics, but for Nigel Farage, the timeline of consistency is apparently measured in minutes. Following a bruising electoral defeat in Makerfield, Farage took to the airwaves to handle a few burning questions regarding a staggering £5 million gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire. What …

The transcription of the interview between the BBC interviewer and Nigel Farage: About his £5million bung by Lawson Akhigbe

Interviewer: Do you think that the defeat in Makerfield was anything to do with your admission that you were given five million pounds by a crypto billionaire? Nigel Farage: Sorry, no one. No one cares, apart from the media, no one cares. No one cares at all. Interviewer: The Parliamentary Standards Watchdog care, because they …

Moral question over executive-funded welfare for judges By Ameh Ochojila

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun (CJN) A renewed national conversation is unfolding around the integrity of Nigeria’s judiciary, as prominent voices question whether judges can truly claim independence while accepting welfare packages from the executive arm of government. The debate immediately gained traction following reports that the Federal Executive Council approved the construction of 40 housing units in Abuja …

₦159 Trillion and Counting: Nigeria’s Debt Machine and the Economics of Extraction by Lawson Akhigbe

Nigeria’s public debt—now hovering around ₦159 trillion—is often presented in sterile fiscal language: deficit financing, capital expenditure gaps, and macroeconomic stabilisation. But strip away the technocratic varnish and a more troubling architecture emerges—one that looks less like development finance and more like a self-reinforcing extraction mechanism. This is not merely a story about borrowing. It …