States of emergency: Nigeria
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Criminal gangs in north-western states, jihadists in the north-east, a rebellion in the south-east: kidnappers, warlords and cattle rustlers are making the country ungovernable. The new head of Samsung Electronics has a legacy to build—and aims to do so by breaking into the cut-throat business of processor chips. And the sci-fi classic “Dune” gets a good cinematic treatment at last.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.0 | Samsung Electronics is the crown jewel of South Korea's chai-ball, the country's often family-run conglomerates. |
| 0:23.6 | We examine its rocky succession and the new boss's ambitious plans to take on the world's largest makers of processor chips. |
| 0:31.6 | And as the latest adaptation of the sci-fi classic Dune hits cinemas in Britain, we look back at previous attempts. |
| 0:39.3 | The genre is notoriously difficult to adapt to the big screen, but Dune's new version may at last be doing the book justice. |
| 0:51.3 | First up, though. |
| 0:59.0 | Nigeria is coming apart at the seams. |
| 1:06.2 | Earlier this week, a criminal gang killed 43 people at a village market in the northwestern state of |
| 1:11.7 | Sokoto, just the latest in a growing number of unpredictable attacks. |
| 1:16.6 | The Northwest is also a hotspot for kidnappings. |
| 1:20.1 | Last month, Nigerian police commissioner Frank Mba paraded three suspects in front of the press. |
| 1:25.3 | These suspects played very key rules |
| 1:29.3 | in the recent kidnap of over a hundred students. |
| 1:35.3 | Through a translator, he questioned each one of them |
| 1:37.3 | about the abduction of students over the summer. |
| 1:40.3 | How many of you kidnapped the students of Betel Baptist High School? |
| 1:45.0 | They said they are 25 people in numbers. |
| 1:53.0 | How many of the students were kidnapped? |
| 1:58.0 | Student Gouda'uq? The kidnap 126 students. |
| 2:01.6 | The kidnappers said they did it because they needed the money. |
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