#Nigeria: The ungoverned spaces. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
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#Nigeria: the ungoverned spaces. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gunmen-kill-dozens-and-kidnap-children-in-northern-nigeria/ar-AA1c9Gyl
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI and the World of Auditorium Bachelor of my colleague Gregory Coppley, the |
| 0:07.7 | Editor-in-Publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, and my informant on Nigeria, the |
| 0:12.7 | disappointing election recently, that is challenged by the two or three who were not successful |
| 0:18.9 | to win the presidency. |
| 0:20.8 | And yet we have violence repeatedly reported by Reuters in these last hours that connects |
| 0:26.8 | to a larger ambition for Nigeria to be a success. |
| 0:31.2 | Government in Nigeria have killed dozens of people and kidnapped a number of children |
| 0:35.2 | in separate attacks in two northern states. |
| 0:38.2 | Gregory, this is just one small example of the chaos across the country. |
| 0:42.0 | The recent election has had answered this because we called that that was an ambition |
| 0:46.4 | of several of the candidates. |
| 0:48.3 | Is it possible? |
| 0:49.3 | Well, no. |
| 0:50.3 | It's not possible in the short term. |
| 0:52.2 | In fact, the election of former legal state governor, Vol. |
| 0:57.2 | Tinebou, to the presidency, hasn't helped matters at all. |
| 1:03.2 | President Tinebou, who's 71, and is quite young, has some cognitive impairment, it seems. |
| 1:12.8 | So we're not sure as to how decisive and how good he will be as someone to lead Nigeria |
| 1:21.4 | into the next year or the next four or five years. |
| 1:26.1 | The reality is that he came into office and he immediately, and his inauguration addressed |
| 1:32.9 | at Eagle Square in Abuja, he delivered on one of his campaign promises, which was to end |
| 1:40.7 | the petroleum subsidy, which was widely agreed to have been necessary. |
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