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During the early years of World War II, Adolf Hitler’s Germany believed it had discovered the formula to break Britain’s will. The answer, they thought, lay in terror from the sky. Beginning in 1940, the German Luftwaffe launched the sustained bombing campaign known as the The Blitz, raining explosives on London and other British cities …
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Failure!!! please. I will revert when that occasion arises if it does. According to Costco philosophy, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. As one never goes to Costco but to Sam’s Club, this philosophy does not apply.
On a presumably ordinary broadcast of Arise TV, with Charles Anyagolu conducting a typically pointed interview, Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, former minister, serial political actor, spoke as politicians do: expansively, provocatively, and with the confidence of a man who knows microphones are not lie detectors. Somewhere, one imagines, officials at the Independent Corrupt …
When we tell the story of colonial resistance, we speak of great leaders, fierce battles, and powerful kingdoms. We rarely speak of a tiny, buzzing insect. Yet, in the case of Nigeria, one of the most significant defenders of the land was not a warrior king or a diplomatic genius, but the lowly mosquito. This …
1. Systemic Attack and "Othering" · Tactics Used: Public disparagement of institutions ("deep state," courts, media), division into "red" vs. "blue" states, incendiary nicknames for opponents.· Constitutional Impact: Erodes public trust in co-equal branches of government, framing them as illegitimate enemies rather than essential checks. This weakens the system's ability to collectively restrain executive overreach. …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 