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NIGERIA: Sowore Promised Workers ₦500,000 a Month. He Hasn't Said How He'd Pay For It.

Omoyele Sowore's ₦500,000 minimum-wage promise is easy to applaud and easy to dismiss. Neither response is good enough. The harder question is what would have to happen inside the Nigerian economy for the figure to become more than a campaign number.

Critical Registrar · 13 September 2026

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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Was Convicted In Public. The Correction Came as a Footnote.

When two of the most serious allegations against a Nebula-winning author were formally retracted seven weeks later, the outlets that broke the original story gave the correction a fraction of the reach of the accusation, a pattern that repeats across a running post, a buried newsletter update, and a mainstream roundup that never revised its own sentence.

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