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There is a question about Paul Kagame that refuses to disappear, no matter how many roads Rwanda builds, how many conferences Kigali hosts, how many investors arrive at its airport, or how many elections Kagame wins with numbers that would make even the most enthusiastic electoral returning officer blush. Is Paul Kagame a strongman, a …
Before the first Army Coup 1966; Major S. O. Ogbemudia poses with Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi at the end of training at Kacha in 1964 To understand the complex titan that was Brigadier General Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, you first have to understand the mess he inherited. Before his arrival, the old Mid-Western Region was essentially the forgotten …
What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken? It's a train, no station is better than the other.
Every faith has its parable of the believer who walks into the wrong building. For Awoism, a doctrine built on discipline, planning and a near-liturgical suspicion of the Nigerian military, the parable arrived in November 1993. General Sani Abacha forced Ernest Shonekan to resign on 17 November 1993 and took over as head of state, and within days the high priests of the progressive tradition were queuing for ministerial briefs.
The Wound That Made Him Every origin story needs a villain, and for a long stretch of Bola Tinubu's political life, that villain wore Olusegun Obasanjo's face. In 2004, Governor Tinubu carved 37 Local Council Development Areas out of Lagos's constitutionally recognised 20, arguing that a city of that density could not be governed from …
