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There are moments in a country’s economic trajectory when infrastructure stops being just about steel and concrete and becomes a map of power. Nigeria’s latest port developments in Lagos—one private, one state-backed—sit squarely in that category. On paper, the Snake Island Port Terminal deal and the UK-backed port refurbishment programme are distinct transactions. In practice, …
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At this point, Nigeria might as well appoint the Minister of Climate Change as National Security Adviser. It would save time. Because if the current argument is to be believed, terrorism in Nigeria is no longer the offspring of failed governance, compromised security systems, and political indifference. No—it is the direct handiwork of sunshine, heatwaves, …
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On March 24, 2019, Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter summarizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. That letter would become one of the most consequential pieces of misinformation in modern American history—not because it contained outright falsehoods, but because of what it chose to …
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