Author: Centre for Nigeria Progress

The Kingsley Moghalu's article on X is serious, sober and correct—which in Nigeria automatically makes it suspicious. It diagnoses Nigeria’s problem as the capture of power by a political elite obsessed with “primitive accumulation.” I disagree slightly. What we have is not primitive accumulation; it is advanced, sophisticated, PhD-level accumulation. These people have turned looting …

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Because as things stand, most Nigerians who stumble into positions of power do not go there to govern; they go there to harvest. Corruption in Nigeria has no borders, no brakes and no shame. It has moved from simmering to boiling point. Public office has become a fast-track investment scheme: enter poor, exit outrageously wealthy. …

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ATTORNEY GENERAL William P. Barr routinely bristles at suggestions that his Justice Department looks more and more like a taxpayer-funded law firm for President Trump. Mr. Barr insists his decisions reflect no other consideration than the rule of law when he sics prosecutors on those who were involved in the Russia investigation or when he …

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Not ordinary lying. Not politician lying. Not the “I’ll build a bridge and then quietly forget” kind of lying. This is industrial-scale, mass-production lying. Lying with confidence. Lying with branding. Lying so frequently that reality needs a lie detector and a therapist.People still ask, very earnestly:“Why does Trump lie so much?”And the answer is simple: …

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