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  "id": 4329477,
  "title": "Governors’ Influence on the Civil Service",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/governors-influence-on-the-civil-service",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-30T01:47:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/30/governors-influence-on-the-civil-service/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Since the return of democracy in 1999, political leaders have continued to weaken the civil service by eroding institutional discipline, promoting political patronage, truncating career progression and replacing merit with",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}