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Edo state police commissioner The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is very clear — almost romantically so. Section 14 declares that “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.” Not secondary. Not optional. Not “subject to availability of funds.” Primary. Every public officer, from the President down …
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There are men who rise to leadership through vision, sacrifice and intellect. And then there are men who arrive by confusing noise with competence, audacity with ability, and shamelessness with strategy. Our subject belongs firmly in the latter category. This is a man who cheated on his wife, then apparently felt that wasn’t ambitious enough …
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During the early years of World War II, Adolf Hitler’s Germany believed it had discovered the formula to break Britain’s will. The answer, they thought, lay in terror from the sky. Beginning in 1940, the German Luftwaffe launched the sustained bombing campaign known as the The Blitz, raining explosives on London and other British cities …
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Failure!!! please. I will revert when that occasion arises if it does. According to Costco philosophy, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. As one never goes to Costco but to Sam’s Club, this philosophy does not apply.
On a presumably ordinary broadcast of Arise TV, with Charles Anyagolu conducting a typically pointed interview, Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, former minister, serial political actor, spoke as politicians do: expansively, provocatively, and with the confidence of a man who knows microphones are not lie detectors. Somewhere, one imagines, officials at the Independent Corrupt …
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