Mark Carney Thank you very much, Larry. I’m going to start in French, and then I’ll switch back to English. (French remarks omitted here for clarity.) It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry — that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do …
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1. Rules-Based Order Is FrayingCarney said the era in which countries could reliably depend on a stable, rules-based global system — enforced by institutions like the WTO or UN — is ending. He characterised the previous system as a “pleasant fiction” that helped provide public goods like open seas, financial stability, and dispute-resolution frameworks, but …
Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. It’s a Scottish name rather has Scottish origins, meaning the son of law. I had been told that from infancy I had indicated that all I wanted to be was to be a lawyer and what my parents perhaps hoped was that their son would …
Justice Polycarp Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court If you wanna live – treat me good If you wanna live, live – I beg you treat me good I’m like a walking razor Don’t you watch my size I’m dangerous, said I’m dangerous I’m like a walking razor Don’t you watch my size I’m …
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Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike revels in controversies, contentious public disputations, vituperative recriminations, and tensile political stress like a pig exults in mud. Peace and harmony bore him to tears. That is why he has an incrementally lengthening list of political spats with multiple people.His quarrel with Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his former protégé, …
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