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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Diezani Alison-Madueke Why Suspicion Is Not Evidence and Why Courts Demand More Than Public Opinion For years, former Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, occupied a unique place in Nigeria's political imagination. Depending on who was speaking, she was either the symbol of everything wrong with Nigeria's oil sector or the victim of a political witch-hunt. …

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