Farouk Lawan In the fevered early weeks of 2012, while Occupy Nigeria still had the streets and the government still had a pulse, the House of Representatives decided to do something unusual. It set up a committee that actually tried to follow the money. Farouk Lawan, then still wearing the halo of “Mr Integrity,” was …
If the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s was Africa’s first post-independence horror show mutinies, secessions, mercenaries, Cold War meddling, and the tragic assassination of Patrice Lumumba then Major (later Major-General) Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was one of the more improbable leads in the United Nations’ attempt to impose a bit of order on the chaos. The …
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When a leader becomes more interested in the symbol of his authority than the substance of his government, politics begins to resemble a cult. The insignia becomes the message, the slogan becomes the policy, and the citizen is expected to admire the packaging while living with the consequences.
https://videopress.com/v/iMEJAOdu?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true The Casablanca Captain Louis Renault, played brilliantly by Claude Rains in the 1942 classic Casablanca, delivered one of cinema's most memorable lines:«"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"»No sooner had he uttered those words than he was handed his gambling winnings. His outrage was pure theatre. He knew exactly …
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