The Paul Joseph Goebbels Award: Adams Oshiomhole and the Art of Political Gaslighting by Lawson Akhigbe

From labour activism and opposition to subsidy removal to defending Tinubu's economic policies, Adams Oshiomhole's political journey is a study in the transformation of principles by the seduction of power.

Backward Integration Policy: How Nigeria Built Cement Giants… and Expensive Houses by Lawson Akhigbe

In 2002, under Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria decided it had had enough of importing what it could literally dig out of its own soil. Thus was born the Backward Integration Policy (BIP)—a grand industrial strategy designed to turn Nigeria from a cement importer into a self-sufficient producer

Live by Executive Orders, Die by Executive Orders by Lawson Akhigbe

A president cannot bind his successors with executive orders. This is not radical constitutional theory. It is the plain, unromantic fact of the American system. Executive orders are the administrative equivalent of sticky notes left on the Resolute Desk: useful for the person who wrote them, mildly binding on the next occupant only for as long as that occupant finds them convenient, and entirely disposable the moment convenience ends