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The Great Nigerian Dark Comedy: How We Paid $2.5 Billion to Buy Our Own Power Outages by Lawson Akhigbe
Antony Elumelu There is a distinct, rhythmic art to surviving a Nigerian evening. First comes the sudden, heavy silence that distinct clunk as the transformer down the street surrenders its soul to the heavens. Then comes the chorus of synchronized sighs across the neighborhood, followed immediately by the roar of two dozen small petrol generators …
The Madman and the Machine: Why the World Has Stopped Blaming Just Trump by Lawson Akhigbe
Passing of the baton There is a particular kind of comfort in blaming one man. It is tidy. It is satisfying. It requires no structural introspection, no uncomfortable national reckoning, no awkward questions about what the mirror might reveal. For a long time, America’s allies indulged this comfort, patting themselves on the back with the …
The Inquisitor’s Gavel: Oshiomhole, MOWAA, and the High Cost of Political Spite by Lawson Akhigbe
Central to the indictment was the breathless lamentation over the demolition of the old Benin Central Hospital. Listening to the rhetoric, one would assume the facility was a pristine sanctuary of modern medicine arbitrarily flattened to make way for art.
Ancestors
What’s a cultural tradition from your country that you love? According spirituality to ancestors has the benefit of living memorial of departed relatives.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 