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Back in 2017, human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong caused a stir when he accused former Akwa Ibom governor Godswill Akpabio of looting the state treasury on a scale that could fund neighbouring Ebonyi State for decades.
In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.
When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.
What’s the best and worst airport you’ve been to? GWA was just huge, OAA is an aerodrome and T5 LHR is probably the best.
In Nigerian governance, reality often outpaces satire. Just when the public was settling into the dramatic narrative spun by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), a cinematic story of daring impostors who supposedly set up rogue shops right under the nose of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), …
