Donald Trump’s conspiracy rhetoric is not a series of isolated theories. It is a production line. Raw material goes in at one end (rumours, disagreements, coincidences, bureaucratic friction, the ordinary mess of democratic politics) and emerges at the other as evidence of a vast, coordinated plot against him personally. Evidence is optional. Suspicion is the …
For centuries, Lagos has lived in a delicate, high-stakes relationship with water. Built on a sprawling network of lagoons, creeks, and barrier islands, the city exists at the absolute mercy of the Atlantic Ocean. But as unseasonal flooding continues to submerge communities, a burning question has surfaced over Nigeria’s most ambitious infrastructure project: Is the …
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Mike Wallace Mike Wallace: …Farrakhan, you go to Nigeria, which is, if not the most corrupt nation in Africa—and it is—it could be the most corrupt nation in the world, Minister Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan: Oh, now, Mr. Wallace… Mike Wallace: It is the most corrupt nation that I have ever covered. I've been there 25 …
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State was turning 58, and he has a shocking, counter-cultural request for his inner circle: Please, stop spending millions to paste my face on the front page of the newspapers. According to a poignant statement from his Chief Press Secretary, John Mayaki, the Governor was deeply worried about the plight of vulnerable street children. To fix this, he wanted his well-wishers to take the massive budgets usually reserved for full-page birthday spreads and donate them to the WeCare Trust orphanage.
