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AFP A brochure suggests the parent company of scandal-hit data firm Cambridge Analytica boasted of interfering in Nigeria's 2007 election - widely dismissed as lacking credibility The company that became Cambridge Analytica boasted about interfering in foreign elections, according to documents seen by the BBC. Cambridge Analytica is embroiled in a storm over claims it …
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This woman was abducted by Boko Haram in an attack on her home town CREDIT: LEKE ALABI-ISAMA Adamu Mohammed had braced himself for the worst. Five weeks ago, when Boko Haram gunmen staged a mass abduction in the northern Nigerian town of Dapchi, his 15-year-old daughter Maryam was among the 110 girls dragged off in broad …
In a country that is a byword for poor governance, Lagos is thriving — attracting investment and private enterprise. So what can the rest of Nigeria learn from it? © Getty Images. A bustling market on Lagos Island Just to the east of Lagos, in the rapidly expanding new city of Lekki, a huge industrial …
Louis XIV words 'L'etat c'est moi' ('I am the state') express the spirit of a rule in which the king held all political authority. The modern day pretender, the Moron of the USA seeks to alter such words but lacks the competence, authority, intelligence and skills to say such words. When he declared “only I …
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described as “criminal” the rejection of a free trade agreement for African countries, by President Muhammadu Buhari and nearly a dozen other African heads of state. African leaders gathered in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to create a unified market for about …
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