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Reform UK Limited There is an old, almost stubborn, principle at the heart of the British legal tradition: the law applies generally. Not selectively. Not tribally. Not according to who arrived in 1066 and who arrived in 2016. From the common law courts that evolved after William the Conqueror planted his Norman flag, through the …
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Let’s play a game. It’s called “Whose Citizens Are These, Anyway?” The rules are simple, if morally bankrupt. Player A, a nation, decides it has Too Many Foreigners. Player A then gathers said foreigners, often with the subtlety of a bulldozer in a china shop, and deposits them at the border of Player B. Player …
Maryam Babangida "The international community has long considered Nigeria a narco-state," declared a 2007 report to the Canadian Parliament, which named then-ruler General Ibrahim Babangida and his wife, Maryam, as central figures in a suspected state-backed cocaine ring.The name Maryam Babangida, Nigeria's influential First Lady from 1985 to 1993, is often associated with her public …
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Israel is a small country with a big personality — the geopolitical equivalent of that compact uncle who insists on sitting with his back to the wall at every restaurant, just in case the waiters are plotting. Surrounded by neighbours who watch it like someone eyeing the last piece of suya, Israel has perfected the …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 