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https://videopress.com/v/ZkyR63Nr?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Nigerian politics has many unwritten rules, but one of the most enduring is this: alignment determines intensity. The case of Ben Murray-Bruce is not novel—it is textbook. Strip away the rhetoric, ignore the official denials, and simply follow the chronology. What emerges is less a scandal and more a familiar institutional pattern. The “Before”: …

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Olumode Samuel Adeyemi. Photo: Ministry of Interior A grand motorcade escorting the Controller-General of the Federal Fire Service, Olumode Adeyemi, through his home state of Kogi has ignited widespread online debate over resource allocation in emergency services. Video footage circulating on social media on Monday shows a convoy of FFS-red emergency vehicles, including Toyota pickups, …

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The most difficult subject in War School was Iran, you know why? No one, even my Professors who were former intelligence operatives couldn’t tell Irans military strategy. Militarily, Iran did what no country has done. The decentralization of it Forces, a well organized a formidable units with its own brain around defense. You can embed …

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Nasir El-Rufai and Abubakar Malami are suddenly the objects of public pity in some corners of Nigeria’s political commentariat. Yes, my default ideological temperament is to empathize with and fight for the underdog. But El-Rufai and Malami are no underdogs. They are merely (temporarily) subdued top dogs whose canine viciousness is only momentarily at bay …

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