The ₦1.3 Billion “Ghost” Council: Masterful Forgery or a Private Deal Gone Sour? By Lawson Akhigbe

This story is thoroughly compelling, provided one is willing to ignore how the Nigerian state machinery actually operates.

Trump’s World Cup: Finding 11,780 Goals

The referee blew the whistle, the linesman raised a flag, the electoral officer counted the votes, and even when people grumbled, they generally accepted that the game was bigger than any one player. Institutions existed so that personal desires did not become public policy

The Watchlist That Became a Guest List by Lawson Akhigbe

The 2006 EFCC watchlist was not, in retrospect, a prosecution document. It was and we can now say this with the authority of twenty years of evidence, a directory of the durable.