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Donald J. Trump has finally achieved what no Silicon Valley billionaire, CERN physicist or Marvel villain could manage: he has dragged the 18th century kicking and screaming into the 21st. In one bold, historically illiterate swoop, he has colonised Venezuela. Not with redcoats and cannons, of course—that would be gauche—but with helicopter gunships, special forces …
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In the months before the 2023 general election, Nigeria experienced what theologians would classify as a minor miracle: agreement among politicians. Peter Obi agreed. Atiku Abubakar agreed. Bola Ahmed Tinubu agreed. Even the petroleum marketers — professional parasites — agreed. Petrol subsidy had to go. Not because of economic enlightenment, but because subsidy had become …
In a move that has shocked absolutely everyone who has ever read the news, the UK Government has boldly stepped in to regulate the one thing we all thought was a bastion of unimpeachable realism: online pornography. The new legislation, part of the Online Safety Act, aims to ban a specific act deemed too violent …
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Ideas of white racial superiority are a threat to South Africa's post-apartheid unity, its sovereignty and its diplomatic relations, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday, calling for global efforts to debunk false stories about white persecution. Ramaphosa was speaking at a conference of the co-ruling African National Congress (ANC), the …
Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a man that inspires conflicting emotions in people. To some he is a born leader and hero. To others he is an ambitious man that tried to break up the federation of Nigeria. Where Odumegwu-Ojukwu is concerned, no one is a neutral. The conflicting opinions on him are consistent with his inconsistent personality …
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