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What's a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? I wish I could fly, it would give a sense of freedom. I use a plane but that's not me flying, that's been flown. I believe I can fly I believe I can touch the sky I think about it every night and …
Nigeria is once again entering a familiar but troubling phase of its political life: a season of restless defections, strategic silences, court-troubled primaries, and quiet negotiations across party lines. To treat these developments as routine political manoeuvring would be a mistake. What the country is witnessing is not merely the ambition of individual politicians but …
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In 2020, Nigerian lawmakers reviewed a $400 million loan deal with the Export-Import Bank of China aimed at a public security communication system, uncovering essential lessons in international finance and accounting.
There is something almost poetic about Nigeria’s infrastructure diplomacy: whichever direction we turn—East or West—we somehow arrive at the same destination. Only the accent changes; the terms do not. When Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned from the United Kingdom with a port development loan for Lagos, the official line sounded reassuringly modern: partnership, development, strategic investment. …
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Margaret Thatcher When the government of David Cameron rolled out Universal Credit under Iain Duncan Smith, it was presented as moral tidiness. Work would always pay. Complexity would vanish. The welfare state would be streamlined into a single, rational payment under the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The premise: if your wages fall short of survival, …
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