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The Lagos Pipeline: How Power, Patronage, and Private Capital Converged into a State System by Lawson Akhigbe
The alliance between Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gilbert Ramez Chagoury is not a conventional business relationship. It represents something far more structured and consequential: a deeply embedded nexus where private capital and state authority intersect. What has emerged over time is not merely patronage in the traditional political sense, but a durable framework through which …
BILLION-NAIRA REPUTATIONS AND KOBO-WORTH CREDIBILITY: NIGERIA’S LIBEL GOLD RUSH by Lawson Akhigbe
When politicians discover defamation law, the courts become a theatre of wounded vanity Something curious has been happening in Nigeria's courts. Politicians men and women whose public careers have been built on the cheerful suspension of truth have rediscovered honour. Not the governing kind, mind you. Not the kind that might prompt one to return …
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If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be and why? I don't wish to master any skill but to keep improving my skills and acquiring new ones.
Diezani, London and the Problem of Proof By Lawson Akhigbe
Diezani Alison-Madueke Why Suspicion Is Not Evidence and Why Courts Demand More Than Public Opinion For years, former Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, occupied a unique place in Nigeria's political imagination. Depending on who was speaking, she was either the symbol of everything wrong with Nigeria's oil sector or the victim of a political witch-hunt. …
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Abuja – Federal Capital Territory
The constitutional and administrative structure of the Federal Capital Territory is unusual within Nigeria because it is neither a full state nor an ordinary federal territory. It is directly administered by the Federal Government under a hybrid arrangement combining executive administration with limited democratic representation. Constitutional Basis of the FCT The legal foundation is primarily …
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