Nigeria has witnessed 26 years of unbroken democratic governance since 1999. This is the nation’s fourth and longest attempt to date in the country's annals. We have seen its attendant challenges, which are a norm in climes where democracy is practiced. In some instances, the stormy relationship between the various arms of government made it …
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Elon Musk If hypocrisy had a headquarters, it would be located somewhere between a Wall Street penthouse and a MAGA rally stage—staffed by billionaires in tailored suits and supported by voters who proudly declare, “We hate elites!” while worshipping a billionaire who wouldn’t share an elevator with them unless a camera was rolling. Let’s break …
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, threatened on Saturday night to attack Nigeria if the killings of Christians continued. T his threat follows his earlier warning on Friday, urging the Nigerian government to take decisive action against terrorists attacking and killing Nigerians in the country. Trump stated that his country would …
Wig-wearing British barristers gather outside Parliament in London in September 2022. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images) Updated guidelines allow more lawyers to dispense with the curly horsehair wigs, while traditionalists fear a loss of courtroom decorum. LONDON — The British legal system isn’t abandoning its 300-year tradition of curly white wigs just yet, but it is making …
If Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry Kissinger and a Lagos “area boy” ever decided to write a joint textbook on 21st-century diplomacy, they would still struggle to match the creative foreign policy gymnastics of Donald Josephine Trump. Forget traditional diplomacy; Trump introduced us to a new school of statecraft: “The Diplomacy of the Asylum.” A style where …
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