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Umaru Dikko In the turbulent theatre of Nigeria’s Second Republic, few names inspired as much fear, loyalty, controversy, and political mythology as Umaru Dikko. To his admirers, he was a brilliant political organiser and indispensable power broker. To his enemies, he symbolised the excesses, patronage politics, and authoritarian instincts of the civilian government that collapsed …
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UK Parliament Ah, bless the poor souls who still think the British Prime Minister is chosen by the great British public in some grand, X Factor-style national vote. Every time a PM gets the heave-ho, the same tired chorus pipes up on social media and breakfast TV: “But we didn’t vote for this one!” Darlings, …
Arthur Nzeribe In Nigerian political history, few men embodied controversy, influence, wealth, and political manipulation quite like Arthur Nzeribe. If the First Republic had its ideological nationalists and the Second Republic its flamboyant political merchants, then the aborted Third Republic belonged partly to the political fixers, men who understood that power in Nigeria was often …
IBB The Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgments and injunctions that derailed the June 12, 1993, presidential election represents one of the most controversial chapters in Nigerian legal history. The "injunction stopping the announcement" was actually the second of two critical midnight rulings issued by the Abuja High Court, orchestrated by Chief Arthur Nzeribe’s …
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