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Photograph by Heather Diehl / GettySave this story The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago. Just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election, the American public was provided with dispositive information on Donald Trump’s beliefs about women, sex, and …
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Nigeria has never been shy of institutional drama. Give us a statute, a security agency and a politically sensitive defendant, and we will produce a constitutional puzzle. At the centre of the latest legal theatre is the Department of State Services (DSS): is it merely an intelligence-gathering body, or can it properly don wig and …
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There was a time, gather round, children, when Britain at least pretended to do diplomacy. There were communiquĂ©s, careful language, and that uniquely British art form: saying something utterly ruthless in a tone so polite you almost thanked them for it. Those days are gone. We now live in the age of Trumpism without Trump: …
Jennifer Madike was the vibrant socialite who captivated Nigeria in the late 1980s and early 1990s,only to become embroiled in a drug and corruption scandal that exposed the highest levels of power and ultimately led to her dramatic personal transformation.Her life is a story of meteoric ambition, national infamy, and redemption, interwoven with the career …
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