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Both Ends. The trap Nigeria is in runs from the outside. It also runs from the inside. Today both. Today’s Bridge runs three stories at three different scales. They describe the same architecture. Ola is trying to become local government chairman. He held his...
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Nigeria’s president named the trap. Then walked straight back into it. That’s not hypocrisy. That’s the design. I want to start with a number that took me a while to sit with. Nigeria’s debt-to-GDP ratio is 32.3 percent. If you look that up, it...
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Part 4 The hall cost two hundred thousand Naira to rent. Ola paid it himself because the party hadn’t confirmed whether events at this scale counted as official campaign activity. He didn’t ask again after the first time he asked. Thirty-seven people came....
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Part 5 He was told about the birthday party on a Tuesday. The party was on Saturday. He was not on the list because there was no list exactly. Or there was a list but it was the kind of list that existed through knowing rather than through writing. His cousin Bisi...
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CONVICTED. SENTENCED. NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. A federal court sentenced former Power Minister Saleh Mamman to 75 years for stealing N33.8 billion from hydroelectric power projects, convicted in absentia, with Interpol ordered to find him. THE SPEECH AND THE LOAN Tinubu...