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For an ex-president who left office over a decade ago, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continues to loom large over Nigeria’s political chessboard. Every election cycle, a familiar dance plays out: rumors of his return spark a flurry of panic, followed swiftly by a wave of lawsuits aiming to lock him out of the villa permanently.The recent …
A nation that spent a decade asking what Goodluck Jonathan did is now spending the next, asking him to come back and do it again. The man himself has said nothing. He rarely did. There is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian political life whereby a man may spend five years doing virtually nothing in office, …
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Do you remember life before the internet? One lived it and enjoying the journey
For nearly three decades, a single man has sat atop a golden throne made of old newspaper print and cable cords, gazing down at the United States and asking: “But what if they were significantly more furious?”That man is Rupert Murdoch. And his crowning achievement, Fox News Channel—launched in October 1996—didn’t just change American political …
Justice Umar Justice Omotosho In the grand, theatrical tradition of Nigerian public administration, there is a sacred, unwritten rule: If the law makes your job too difficult, simply pretend you are the law. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently looked at the freshly minted Electoral Act 2026, passed by the National Assembly to set …
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