Speaker Edo State House of Assembly Blessing Sheriff Agbebaku How Governors Became Kings and Assemblies Became Yes-people. Ah, the “rubber stamp” that delightful term in Nigeria’s democratic theatre, where lawmaking meets the executive like a eager intern stamping “APPROVED” on every memo. Far from a harmless office gag, it’s a glowing indictment of institutional surrender. …
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There is an eternal, almost Newtonian law of modern politics: wherever a politician loudly proclaims they are "standing up for the forgotten working man," you will inevitably find a discreet corner table in a private Mayfair club where someone is eagerly trying to launder foreign money.
What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done when no one was watching? Just being in private as in public
Gambler The Definition Nobody Asked For Character, we are told in every commencement speech and every eulogy, is what you do when nobody is watching. This is a lovely sentiment, entirely useless for governance, because in politics somebody is always watching, usually with a phone out. A more honest definition, and the one this piece …
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Walter Rodney To take Rodney seriously would mean rewriting Sierra Leone’s past from below and from the outside in at the same time. …Rodney must be placed at the centre of a people-centred historiography of Sierra Leone, even if he has not been institutionally recognised as such. His interest was not in rulers alone, nor …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 