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Nasir El-Rufai and Abubakar Malami are suddenly the objects of public pity in some corners of Nigeria’s political commentariat. Yes, my default ideological temperament is to empathize with and fight for the underdog. But El-Rufai and Malami are no underdogs. They are merely (temporarily) subdued top dogs whose canine viciousness is only momentarily at bay …
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FILE PHOTO: Cranes and containers seen at APM Terminals at the gateway port in Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria July 30, 2019. Picture taken July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo Nigeria is committing nearly $1 billion to overhaul its busiest seaports, betting that modern infrastructure and faster cargo clearance can reverse years of costly inefficiencies that have …
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If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? Moses who led and freed his people, his services is surely required for my country
The Kingdom of Benin was a highly organized, urbanized state that thrived for centuries in what is now Edo State, Nigeria. At its height, Benin City was a marvel—laid out with wide streets, massive earthworks (the Benin Walls, among the largest man-made structures in the world at the time), a sophisticated court system under the …
If the American debate over birthright citizenship reveals anything, it is this: in constitutional democracies, how you do something is often more important than what you are trying to do. Nowhere is this clearer than when you juxtapose the rigid constitutionalism of the United States with the fluid parliamentary sovereignty of the United Kingdom. The …
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