If you are an African policymaker/technocrat/leader who has been following the World Bank’s development advice for the last say 30 years, this finding would shock you.
The World Bank, Industrial Policy, and Africa by Dr Fikayo Akeredolu
Terrorists Should Not Be Given a Broadcast Licence by Lawson Akhigbe
At the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the British government imposed restrictions on the direct broadcast of the voices of leading members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and associated organisations. Most notably, the BBC and other broadcasters were prohibited from airing the voices of figures such as Gerry Adams, then president of Sinn Féin, which was widely regarded as the political wing of the IRA. Television stations resorted to using actors’ voices to relay statements instead.
The Anatomy of a Rigged Election: Rivers State, Electoral Legitimacy and the Dangerous Silence After the Ballot By Lawson Akhigbe
The BBC reviewed results from more than 6,000 polling stations in Rivers State. Its investigation found that the polling-unit figures it could obtain suggested that Obi had won the state by a substantial margin. The BBC also reported that Tinubu’s official declared total was more than 106,000 votes higher than its polling-station tally, while Obi’s official figure was more than 50,000 lower.
Fuel’s Gold: Why Governor Monday Okpebholo Thinks Your Empty Wallet is a Luxury Vacation by Lawson Akhigbe
Gather round, petrol-pump poets and economic visionaries, because Governor Monday Okpebholo has unlocked a geopolitical cheat code that will leave Nobel Prize-winning economists weeping into their calculators.
The Art of the Bare Minimum: Why Nigeria’s Certificate Wars Always End in Judicial Tears by Lawson Akhigbe
Armed with high-resolution scanners, magnifying glasses, and a fresh grievance, politicians comb through the educational credentials of their opponents. They obsess over font kerning, faint seals, and misaligned margins, convinced that somewhere between a crooked signature and an unreadable stamp lies the ultimate prize: getting the Supreme Court to invalidate millions of votes before lunch.
