{
  "id": 20052134,
  "title": "Re: Obasanjo: Why debt is an instrument of leverage for purposeful governance, By ‘Tope Fasua",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/re-obasanjo-why-debt-is-an-instrument-of-leverage-for-purposeful",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-14T21:12:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/925177-re-obasanjo-why-debt-is-an-instrument-of-leverage-for-purposeful-governance-by-tope-fasua.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On the contrary though, I posit that debt can build generations. In fact debt has built generations. All the countries that matter borrowed by leveraging their cash flows to get where they are. My earlier argument in the article stands. The Western world has only played with peanuts in Africa and we are not monkeys. […] The post Re: Obasanjo: Why debt is an instrument of leverage for purposeful…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}