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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. | AP/Mary Altaffer While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of exception. This Israeli exceptionalism is the very essence …
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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