Which languages do you speak and how did that impact your life? Ability to connect, impact and be impacted. English and another
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Moral question over executive-funded welfare for judges By Ameh Ochojila
Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun (CJN) A renewed national conversation is unfolding around the integrity of Nigeria’s judiciary, as prominent voices question whether judges can truly claim independence while accepting welfare packages from the executive arm of government. The debate immediately gained traction following reports that the Federal Executive Council approved the construction of 40 housing units in Abuja …
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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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