In a country where poverty and inequality are so entrenched, Nigeria can’t claim to be a civilised country when it can’t provide well-funded legal aid to its citizens who need it.
The Enlightenment, the 17th and 18th centuries’ movement, is credited with the modern understanding of the word “civilisation”. The movement advanced the idea of civilising humankind through progress in economics, science, government, industry, culture. A country is thus civilised when its soc
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Olu Fasan
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