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Grandiose Parlor comments on the recent Nigerian debt cancellation. He wonders how Nigerians have benefitted from the debt and where the loans were spent. …”What disturbs me the most is that a greater slice of this money ended in the pockets of a handful of retired generals and former top-level bureaucrats.”..
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