Has Obi won, can Obi? Nigeria’s elections
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a large constituency of fed-up youths. We look at the early returns. A year ago Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, announced a tremendous shift in defence policy and funding; we ask how far the warship has turned since then. And remembering Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite composer.
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:07.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.2 | A year ago, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Schultz proclaimed a huge shift in a defense policy |
| 1:21.3 | that's been notoriously cautious for decades, and he put a hundred billion euros behind |
| 1:26.7 | the promise. We examine how that shift is playing |
| 1:29.8 | out one year on. And looking a little further back in time to 400 years ago, we listened to |
| 1:37.0 | the work of William Bird, England's finest composer at the time, and how his life played out |
| 1:42.3 | during a period of tremendous religious upheaval. |
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| 2:11.5 | But it's quiet. It's quiet today. There's barely any cars on the road. |
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