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Nigeria has finally discovered the perfect suspect. Not corruption. Not state failure. Not decades of policy negligence. No—the weather did it. According to the latest intellectual fashion, terrorism in Nigeria is no longer about guns, governance, or good old-fashioned incompetence. It is now the fault of rising temperatures, shrinking lakes, and, presumably, overly ambitious sunshine. …
Some call it the law of karma. I prefer the older formulation: what you do unto others shall, in time, be done unto you. Nigeria’s recent political history offers few more instructive illustrations of this truth than the parallel fates of Sambo Dasuki and Abubakar Malami. Those expressing sympathy for former Attorney-General of the Federation, …
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Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. Not to over share and over burden Joe and Jane Doe in WordPress therapy sessions.
In 1977, as Nigeria prepared its cautious return to civil rule, a constitutional conference convened to midwife a new political order. What emerged in its aftermath, particularly in the transition to the Second Republic, bore the unmistakable imprint of history. Political formations were not conjured from thin air; they were, in large measure, reincarnations. Birds …
There is a comforting lie societies tell themselves during war: that conflict is about ideals—territory, sovereignty, justice, survival. It sounds noble. It reads well in communiqués. It justifies sacrifice. But beneath the speeches and slogans lies a far less flattering reality: war is also an economy. And if you want to understand how that economy …
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