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FILE PHOTO: Cranes and containers seen at APM Terminals at the gateway port in Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria July 30, 2019. Picture taken July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo Nigeria is committing nearly $1 billion to overhaul its busiest seaports, betting that modern infrastructure and faster cargo clearance can reverse years of costly inefficiencies that have …
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If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? Moses who led and freed his people, his services is surely required for my country
The Kingdom of Benin was a highly organized, urbanized state that thrived for centuries in what is now Edo State, Nigeria. At its height, Benin City was a marvel—laid out with wide streets, massive earthworks (the Benin Walls, among the largest man-made structures in the world at the time), a sophisticated court system under the …
If the American debate over birthright citizenship reveals anything, it is this: in constitutional democracies, how you do something is often more important than what you are trying to do. Nowhere is this clearer than when you juxtapose the rigid constitutionalism of the United States with the fluid parliamentary sovereignty of the United Kingdom. The …
There are moments in politics when the mask slips—not dramatically, not with fireworks, but with a stray sentence that reveals the wiring beneath the polished exterior. On the 4 April 2026, such moment came courtesy of Nyesom Wike, a minister of the Federal Republic, the minster for the Federal Capital Territory and former Governor of …
Continue reading "When Wike Hears Dissent and Reaches for His Gun by Lawson Akhigbe"
