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There is a persistent Nigerian belief that whenever government owns something, every Nigerian automatically becomes a director, auditor, procurement officer and forensic accountant of that thing. This belief is currently being tested by the lawsuit filed by SERAP seeking to compel the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to account for approximately ₦5.9 billion reportedly …
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Fatmata Bio, Bob Crow, and Frank Dobson What do Fatmata Bio, Bob Crow, and Frank Dobson have in common? On the surface, very little. The late Bob Crow was a firebrand white British trade union leader. Frank Dobson was a heavyweight white British Labour politician and former Health Secretary. Fatmata Bio is a Black woman, …
There was a time when buying a car meant owning a machine. You received keys, a logbook, and the freedom to fix it with a hammer, a spanner and questionable confidence. Today, buying a modern hypercar increasingly resembles acquiring a long-term software licence with leather seats. That reality exploded into public view with the ongoing …
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Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like? No. But as he is the major driver for extra planetary colonisation, life will be like Mar-a-Lago with government secrets and they will make sure there will be no civilisational erasure, so supper humans like themselves will be sole Lords …
There was a time when democracies feared kings. Nations fought wars, drafted constitutions, and erected elaborate systems of checks and balances to prevent the rise of one man above the law. America, born from rebellion against monarchy, built an entire civic religion around the idea that no citizen, not even a president, should become sovereign. …
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