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  1. 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 anyone into silence at a dinner party in Lagos. And yet Ghana has not produced, at scale, the particular species of moral vacancy that Nigeria now exports more reliably than crude oil. The difference is not GDP. It is something closer to what economists, in their limited vocabulary, have no line item for: a poverty of the spirit, and it is this poverty, not the one in the spreadsheets, that is bankrupting the country in ways no IMF facility can restructure.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/the-

  2. 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 anyone into silence at a dinner party in Lagos. And yet Ghana has not produced, at scale, the particular species of moral vacancy that Nigeria now exports more reliably than crude oil. The difference is not GDP. It is something closer to what economists, in their limited vocabulary, have no line item for: a poverty of the spirit, and it is this poverty, not the one in the spreadsheets, that is bankrupting the country in ways no IMF facility can restructure.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/the-

  3. 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 anyone into silence at a dinner party in Lagos. And yet Ghana has not produced, at scale, the particular species of moral vacancy that Nigeria now exports more reliably than crude oil. The difference is not GDP. It is something closer to what economists, in their limited vocabulary, have no line item for: a poverty of the spirit, and it is this poverty, not the one in the spreadsheets, that is bankrupting the country in ways no IMF facility can restructure.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/the-

  4. 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 anyone into silence at a dinner party in Lagos. And yet Ghana has not produced, at scale, the particular species of moral vacancy that Nigeria now exports more reliably than crude oil. The difference is not GDP. It is something closer to what economists, in their limited vocabulary, have no line item for: a poverty of the spirit, and it is this poverty, not the one in the spreadsheets, that is bankrupting the country in ways no IMF facility can restructure.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/the-

  5. 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 anyone into silence at a dinner party in Lagos. And yet Ghana has not produced, at scale, the particular species of moral vacancy that Nigeria now exports more reliably than crude oil. The difference is not GDP. It is something closer to what economists, in their limited vocabulary, have no line item for: a poverty of the spirit, and it is this poverty, not the one in the spreadsheets, that is bankrupting the country in ways no IMF facility can restructure.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/the-

  6. A quotation from Lincoln

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/6159…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidency #authority #executive #invasion #military #power #preemption #president #war #warpower

  7. A quotation from Lincoln

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/6159…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidency #authority #executive #invasion #military #power #preemption #president #war #warpower

  8. A quotation from Lincoln

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/6159…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidency #authority #executive #invasion #military #power #preemption #president #war #warpower

  9. A quotation from Lincoln

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/6159…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidency #authority #executive #invasion #military #power #preemption #president #war #warpower

  10. A quotation from Lincoln

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/6159…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #presidency #authority #executive #invasion #military #power #preemption #president #war #warpower