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Richard Ikiebe

43 Articles

Caracas has forced de-dollarisation calculus but the dollar’s end is not yet nigh

The manifold images from Caracas could hardly be more confusing, their shades…

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2026: The enigma year for which the Soothsayers lost their compass

The end-of-year soothsayer, that perennial fixture of December: prophets, star-gazers and forecasters,…

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The hope of Christmas through the eyes of a nation in pain

We live in an age where everything glitters: gigantic, gaudy and loud.…

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Governed impunity and Nigeria’s slow march toward self-inflicted state failure

On December 16, the United States finally implemented its June warning by…

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Nigeria’s broken “Monopoly of Violence” and what it must do to recover it

In classical terms, a modern state exists because it “successfully claims the…

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When war rhetoric came calling, clarity collapsed and Nigeria media lost the story

A former NLNG chief, Chima Ibeneche, once captured the contradiction deftly when…

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Reimagining Nigeria into becoming the nation we could be

If Nigeria were a nation of one tribe and one religion, what…

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An urgent case for disruptive thinking and intellectual rebellion in Africa

In much of Africa, the dominant frameworks for democracy, economics, and governance…

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