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Em ‘Orho: Celebrating the new yam in Edo lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/e...
Em ‘Orho: Celebrating the new yam in Edo
Yams The New Yam Festival is an annual feast celebrated by almost every ethnic group in Nigeria, yam being a staple food not just in Nigeria but also in West Africa and other regions. It is usually…
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September 20, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Em ‘Orho: Celebrating the new yam in Edo lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/e...
WHAT OJUKWU TOLD ME BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE WAR BY PROF. SAM ALUKO (Repost) lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/w...
WHAT OJUKWU TOLD ME BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE WAR BY PROF. SAM ALUKO (Repost)
Prof Sam Aluko How close were you to the late Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu? I will say that I was very close to him till his death. Immediately, he became governor of the former Eastern Region, when…
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September 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM
WHAT OJUKWU TOLD ME BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE WAR BY PROF. SAM ALUKO (Repost) lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/w...
Yes, Prime Minister – The Classic "Need to Know" Scene by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/y...
Yes, Prime Minister – The Classic “Need to Know” Scene by Lawson Akhigbe
Sir Humphrey: “So, I gather you denied that Mr Halifax’s phone had been bugged?”
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September 20, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Yes, Prime Minister – The Classic "Need to Know" Scene by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/20/y...
Digging Graves Before the Truth: The Tragedy of Custodial Deaths in Niger State by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/19/d...
Digging Graves Before the Truth: The Tragedy of Custodial Deaths in Niger State by Lawson Akhigbe
Another grim chapter has unfolded in the heart of Nigeria, and once again, the state’s apparatus is rushing to manage public relations rather than uncover systemic accountability.
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September 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Digging Graves Before the Truth: The Tragedy of Custodial Deaths in Niger State by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/19/d...
One passport, two afterlives. Die in Bangkok while domiciled in the UK, get a full coroner's inquest. Die in Nigeria, get a funeral brochure. #Citizenship #RuleOfLaw
September 19, 2026 at 5:18 PM
One passport, two afterlives. Die in Bangkok while domiciled in the UK, get a full coroner's inquest. Die in Nigeria, get a funeral brochure. #Citizenship #RuleOfLaw
"A hole in the heart" is not a diagnosis, it's a hymn sung over unanswered questions. Nigeria's Coroners Law exists. So does the shrug. #Accountability #DueProcess
September 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
"A hole in the heart" is not a diagnosis, it's a hymn sung over unanswered questions. Nigeria's Coroners Law exists. So does the shrug. #Accountability #DueProcess
The UK doesn't care if you died in a Southeast Asian clinic or a Manchester alley, the inquest opens regardless. Home soil, apparently, is where scrutiny goes to die too. #UKLaw #Governance
September 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The UK doesn't care if you died in a Southeast Asian clinic or a Manchester alley, the inquest opens regardless. Home soil, apparently, is where scrutiny goes to die too. #UKLaw #Governance
Same green passport, two different universes of state duty. A nation's respect for the living is measured by what it does when the dead stop talking. #SocialJustice #Nigeria
September 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Same green passport, two different universes of state duty. A nation's respect for the living is measured by what it does when the dead stop talking. #SocialJustice #Nigeria
A Tale of Two Locations and One Citizenship by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/19/a...
A Tale of Two Locations and One Citizenship by Lawson Akhigbe
Passports are supposed to be the great equalizers of national identity. If two people carry the green-backed book stamped with the Nigerian coat of arms, the constitution insists they share the exa…
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September 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A Tale of Two Locations and One Citizenship by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/19/a...
Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism: devolve the power, crack down on vapes, and look furiously busy while the big structural fires keep burning. Priority: photogenic decline. #LookingBusy #Manchesterism
September 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism: devolve the power, crack down on vapes, and look furiously busy while the big structural fires keep burning. Priority: photogenic decline. #LookingBusy #Manchesterism
Burnham’s masterstroke: tax warehouses to save pubs, ban gaming centres, and call it “rewiring Britain.” Nothing says radical like rearranging the high street deckchairs. #PoliticsOfLookingBusy
September 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Burnham’s masterstroke: tax warehouses to save pubs, ban gaming centres, and call it “rewiring Britain.” Nothing says radical like rearranging the high street deckchairs. #PoliticsOfLookingBusy
“No 10 North” sounds bold until you realise the real levers stay locked in the Treasury. Devolution as brand. Delivery as photo-op. #BurnhamStrategy #Manchesterism
September 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
“No 10 North” sounds bold until you realise the real levers stay locked in the Treasury. Devolution as brand. Delivery as photo-op. #BurnhamStrategy #Manchesterism
Vape shops out, council houses promised, fiscal rules untouched. Classic symptom management dressed up as governing philosophy. #LookingBusy #HighStreetPolitics
September 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Vape shops out, council houses promised, fiscal rules untouched. Classic symptom management dressed up as governing philosophy. #LookingBusy #HighStreetPolitics
Manchesterism exported: regional authenticity, T-shirt under the jacket, and a stubborn preference for the safe and visible over the contested and costly. #PoliticsOfLookingBusy
September 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Manchesterism exported: regional authenticity, T-shirt under the jacket, and a stubborn preference for the safe and visible over the contested and costly. #PoliticsOfLookingBusy
Burnham’s Strategy: Manchesterism Meets the Politics of Looking Busy lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/b...
Burnham’s Strategy: Manchesterism Meets the Politics of Looking Busy
Andy Burnham did not inherit a government so much as a stage set. After years of mayoral apprenticeship in Greater Manchester, he arrived in Downing Street with a ready-made philosophy called “Manc…
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September 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Burnham’s Strategy: Manchesterism Meets the Politics of Looking Busy lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/b...
Ghana’s shame muscle still twitches. Ours has atrophied. Outrage as spectacle, never as consequence. Material poverty can be fixed. This one has to be relearned. #SpiritualRecession
September 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Ghana’s shame muscle still twitches. Ours has atrophied. Outrage as spectacle, never as consequence. Material poverty can be fixed. This one has to be relearned. #SpiritualRecession
Traditional thrones once answered to ancestry. Now they’re ceremonial furniture for rent, wheeled out for the fattest envelope. Nothing sacred, only unpriced. #ThroneForSale
September 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Traditional thrones once answered to ancestry. Now they’re ceremonial furniture for rent, wheeled out for the fattest envelope. Nothing sacred, only unpriced. #ThroneForSale
Our prisons are no longer correctional. They’re postgraduate faculties of crime. You enter for small fraud and graduate ready for the big one. Quality control at last. #Nigeria
September 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Our prisons are no longer correctional. They’re postgraduate faculties of crime. You enter for small fraud and graduate ready for the big one. Quality control at last. #Nigeria
Politicians empty education budgets so strangers in Europe can admire them. The flinch is gone. Itiju and ihere have been redeployed. #PovertyOfSpirit #Naija
September 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Politicians empty education budgets so strangers in Europe can admire them. The flinch is gone. Itiju and ihere have been redeployed. #PovertyOfSpirit #Naija
Nigeria’s real crisis isn’t the World Bank’s poverty line. It’s the poverty of spirit where shame retired without pension. Theft is now just appetite. #SpiritualPoverty #Nigeria
September 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Nigeria’s real crisis isn’t the World Bank’s poverty line. It’s the poverty of spirit where shame retired without pension. Theft is now just appetite. #SpiritualPoverty #Nigeria
The Poverty We Do Not Count: Notes on a Nigerian Spirit in Recession by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/t...
The Poverty We Do Not Count: Notes on a Nigerian Spirit in Recession by Lawson Akhigbe
Ghana, our garrulous neighbour and perennial older-sibling-by-comparison, is not a rich country. Its currency has had its own well-documented indignities. Its unemployment figures would not shame a…
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September 18, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The Poverty We Do Not Count: Notes on a Nigerian Spirit in Recession by Lawson Akhigbe lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/t...