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Norway and the Discipline of Wealth by Lawson Akhigbe
In 1969, the small Scandinavian nation of Norway discovered one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world. The discovery of the Ekofisk changed everything. Almost overnight, Norway found itself sitting on extraordinary wealth beneath the waters of the North Sea. History, however, had already shown what usually happens when sudden natural resource wealth …
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Edo State and National Presidential Elections 2027 by Lawson Akhigbe
There’s a difference between political ambition and political arithmetic. One inspires; the other must still add up. In Edo State, that distinction is currently being stretched to breaking point. The baseline facts are not in dispute. According to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Edo has 2,629,025 registered voters. Yet, in the 2023 presidential election, actual …
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When the Voter Becomes the Enemy: A Far-Right Habit by Lawson Akhigbe
In the fevered theatre of the 2024 United States presidential election, Donald Trump delivered one of those lines that would be dismissed as parody if it were not uttered in earnest. At a presidential debate, he alleged that Haitians in Springfield were eating the pets—dogs and even swans—of local residents. It was the sort of …
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