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Posted on 10/02/202610/02/2026

The Phones No Longer Ring: Nigeria’s Rent Economy, Explained in Missed Calls by Lawson Akhigbe

Yusuf Buhari There are economic textbooks, there are IMF reports, and then there is the most accurate indicator of Nigeria’s political economy: the call log on the phone of a man close to power. Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s late president, has accidentally written the clearest thesis on Nigeria’s rent economy without citing Adam Smith, …

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