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Comparing Abacha-Era Corruption to Babangida-Era Corruption: Two Faces of Military-Era Kleptocracy in Nigeria by Lawson Akhigbe
IBB Nigeria’s military dictatorships from the mid-1980s to late 1990s entrenched grand corruption as a structural feature of governance, contributing to the country’s estimated $400 billion+ losses to graft since independence. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB, ruled 1985–1993) and General Sani Abacha (ruled 1993–1998) exemplify distinct yet overlapping models of plunder. Babangida’s era is often …
The Pocket Money Governor: A Study in Magnificent Mediocrity by Lawson Akhigbe
There is a peculiar kind of public official who arrives in high office not as a destination earned through demonstrated competence, but as a man who simply wandered into a room he was not supposed to be in and sat down before anyone could stop him. Monday Okpebholo, Governor of Edo State, is that man. …
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Bill Maher and Jon Stewart by Lawson Akhigbe
Bill Maher and Jon Stewart represent two prominent trajectories in American political comedy over the past three decades. Both rose to prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s as sharp, irreverent voices skewering power, hypocrisy, and media spin—Maher through Politically Incorrect and later Real Time with Bill Maher, Stewart via The Daily Show. Yet their …
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The Golden Rule
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “Do to others as you would have them do to you”,
Centre for Nigeria Progress 