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STATE CAPTURE : Who Really Owns Nigeria?: Mass Reader Edition - Book 9 GNVIS
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STATE CAPTURE

Ta Ni O Ni Naijiria Gidi Gidi?

By Samuel Chimezie Okechukwu

The Mass Reader Edition of State Capture is built around a single question: is Nigeria a country of 220 million citizens, or is it a holding company whose shares are held by a rotating group of eight to ten families? The three weapons it examines — the Power Hider (which makes wealth concentration seem too complex to understand), the Memory Eraser (which makes you forget what was sold and who bought it), and the Hunger Engine (which makes you too exhausted by survival to investigate ownership) — are deployed across four documented mechanisms of state capture. The Harvest traces NITEL, PHCN, and Ajaokuta through their privatisation histories, with attention to the gap between announced bid prices and final sale prices. The Subsidy Kings documents how N13.7 trillion in fuel subsidy payments reached five companies whose retail stations most Nigerians have never visited. The Land Grab follows Mama Titi's Lagos Lagoon house through the 2025 demolition and traces the 1978 Land Use Act that made it legal. Chapter 4 — The Watchdogs That Became Pets — examines how regulatory agencies are staffed by alumni of the industries they regulate. Chapter 5 maps the disruption record.

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STATE CAPTURE : Who Really Owns Nigeria?: Mass Reader Edition - Book 9 GNVIS
Great Nigeria Collection
Reading in Yoruba

STATE CAPTURE

Ta Ni O Ni Naijiria Gidi Gidi?

By Samuel Chimezie Okechukwu

The Mass Reader Edition of State Capture is built around a single question: is Nigeria a country of 220 million citizens, or is it a holding company whose shares are held by a rotating group of eight to ten families? The three weapons it examines — the Power Hider (which makes wealth concentration seem too complex to understand), the Memory Eraser (which makes you forget what was sold and who bought it), and the Hunger Engine (which makes you too exhausted by survival to investigate ownership) — are deployed across four documented mechanisms of state capture. The Harvest traces NITEL, PHCN, and Ajaokuta through their privatisation histories, with attention to the gap between announced bid prices and final sale prices. The Subsidy Kings documents how N13.7 trillion in fuel subsidy payments reached five companies whose retail stations most Nigerians have never visited. The Land Grab follows Mama Titi's Lagos Lagoon house through the 2025 demolition and traces the 1978 Land Use Act that made it legal. Chapter 4 — The Watchdogs That Became Pets — examines how regulatory agencies are staffed by alumni of the industries they regulate. Chapter 5 maps the disruption record.

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