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Rewritten from 2017: The Fine Art of the Birthday Bill-Board: Why the Governor Doesn’t Get the Joke by Lawson Akhigbe

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State was turning 58, and he has a shocking, counter-cultural request for his inner circle: Please, stop spending millions to paste my face on the front page of the newspapers.
According to a poignant statement from his Chief Press Secretary, John Mayaki, the Governor was deeply worried about the plight of vulnerable street children. To fix this, he wanted his well-wishers to take the massive budgets usually reserved for full-page birthday spreads and donate them to the WeCare Trust orphanage.

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The Great Unchaining: How Gates, Jobs, and Musk Freed Us From Desks, Cameras, and Petrol While Leaving Us Philosophically Naked by Lawson Akhigbe

So far, so dazzling. We have been unchained from the desk, from the camera, from the petrol pump, and soon, apparently, from the steering wheel itself. Progress has been relentless, elegant, and profitable.

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Thomas More’s Utopia

Utopia (full Latin title: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a seminal 1516 work by Sir Thomas More (1478–1535). It is one of the most influential books of the Renaissance and the founding text of the modern utopian literary genre. Understanding its historical context reveals it as a sophisticated product of its time—blending humanism, social criticism, travel literature, and political philosophy—while also serving as a subtle mirror to the anxieties and aspirations of early Tudor England and Europe.

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David Cameron: The Prime Minister Who Kept Proving Enoch Powell Right

Enoch Powell famously observed that “all political careers end in failure.” Whether one agrees with the man or not, the aphorism has endured because politics is an unforgiving profession. Few modern British politicians illustrate it more vividly than David Cameron.

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The Day the Aura Shattered: Why Nigeria Needs Its Own “Not the Nine O’Clock News” Moment by Lawson Akhigbe

Remember the good old days when politicians were treated like minor deities? Back in the UK, leaders ascended to power wrapped in such thick layers of pomp, circumstance, and blind reverence that you could practically smell the incense. Accountability? Never heard of her.

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