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Is There A Backstory To Wale Edun’s Exit? by Azu Ishiekwene
The short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun.The online newspaper Premium Times published multiple likely versions in a single story. The biggest issue, according …
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Long Spoon Diplomacy: In Defence of Starmer’s Supposed Sin by Lawson Akhigbe
There is something uniquely British about demanding the resignation of a Prime Minister not for what he has done, but for who he has dared to sit next to at dinner. The current clamour for the head of Keir Starmer falls neatly into that tradition—high on indignation, low on strategic literacy. The complaint, as dressed …
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The Inspector-General’s Retreat: On Cameras, Constables, and the Constitution by Lawson Akhigbe
IGP Olatunji Disu IGP Olatunji Disu has remembered that he runs a police force and has apparently decided that the public's camera is a greater threat to law and order than the police officer's impunity. There is a peculiarly Nigerian species of authority figure who, having said something correct, correct enough even to have been …
