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If Nigerian courtrooms had a loyalty card system, Nnamdi Kanu would have earned a free trial by now — complete with complimentary garri and groundnuts at the door. But alas, instead of redeeming points, he has been redeeming drama, and the Nigerian judiciary has been given front-row seats to one of the most chaotic one-man …
Apart from tariffs, another word that the Trump presidency is fond of is genocide. First, it was South Africa. During South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House last May, President Donald Trump played a video suggesting that white South Africans were under genocidal attack. It was a fake video, of course, but …
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In the turbulent landscape of global politics, few things are as revealing as how a leader proposes to solve a crisis. Recently, President Donald Trump articulated a stance on two separate African conflicts that, on the surface, might seem like disjointed policy points. However, when examined together, they form a coherent and alarming picture—one that …
In the great theatre of British royalty, Prince Andrew occupies a special seat — somewhere between comic relief and “don’t mention the yacht”. The man has achieved what few in public life can: being disliked not for his politics or policies, but for the vague, aristocratic air of “something dodgy but not quite jail-worthy.”Let’s start …
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Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use. In May 2024, Daniel Ojukwu, a twenty-six-year-old reporter for the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, a Nigerian nonprofit, was grabbed off the streets of Lagos by armed police and bundled into a …
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