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Firing Squad In a moment of pure, unadulterated political adrenaline, Edo State’s Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, went full Game of Thrones. Standing before a frustrated public, he announced a "brilliant" new security strategy: convicted kidnappers will be publicly executed right in King’s Square. Cue the dramatic music. Cue the applause from a terrified populace tired …
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Gilbert Ramez Chagoury Gilbert Ramez Chagoury (born January 8, 1946, in Lagos, Nigeria, to Lebanese immigrant parents) is a Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire, diplomat, and philanthropist whose business network exemplifies the fusion of diaspora entrepreneurship, political access, infrastructure delivery, and transnational diplomacy in emerging markets. Co-founding the Chagoury Group in 1971 with his younger brother Ronald, he …
The alliance between Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gilbert Ramez Chagoury is not a conventional business relationship. It represents something far more structured and consequential: a deeply embedded nexus where private capital and state authority intersect. What has emerged over time is not merely patronage in the traditional political sense, but a durable framework through which …
When politicians discover defamation law, the courts become a theatre of wounded vanity Something curious has been happening in Nigeria's courts. Politicians men and women whose public careers have been built on the cheerful suspension of truth have rediscovered honour. Not the governing kind, mind you. Not the kind that might prompt one to return …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 