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₦159 Trillion and Counting: Nigeria’s Debt Machine and the Economics of Extraction by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria’s public debt—now hovering around ₦159 trillion—is often presented in sterile fiscal language: deficit financing, capital expenditure gaps, and macroeconomic stabilisation. But strip away the technocratic varnish and a more troubling architecture emerges—one that looks less like development finance and more like a self-reinforcing extraction mechanism. This is not merely a story about borrowing. It …
The Numbers Were Never the Problem by Lawson Akhigbe
On Trump's firing of Erika McEntarfer, and the peculiar belief that sacking a statistician changes arithmetic There is a particular breed of authoritarian impulse, not the jackbooted kind, which at least has the virtue of being honest about its intentions, but the softer, more petulant variety, which believes that reality is a subordinate. That if …
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The 10th Senate: When the Rubber Stamp Desires an Upgrade to Clown Shoes by Lawson Akhigbe
To call the 10th Nigerian Senate a "rubber stamp" is to pay it a compliment it hasn’t earned. A rubber stamp, by definition, has a function. It is a tool of predictable utility, leaving a clean, legible imprint of executive will before being placed back in its tray. What we have under the grandmaster of …
Nigeria’s Electoral Referee Has Been Picked By One of the Players: And Nobody Is Pretending Otherwise Anymore by Lawson Akhigbe
INEC There is a particular kind of comedy that only constitutional lawyers and long-suffering Nigerian voters can truly appreciate. It is the comedy of a document that says one thing with great solemnity, and a government that does the opposite with even greater solemnity, and both parties nodding at each other as though the contradiction …
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