Olusegun Adeniyi, chairman of THISDAY editorial board has narrated how the harassment of two allies of President Muhammadu Buhari without his knowledge, led to the suspension and detention of Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The former spokesman to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua said Buhari learnt about Magu’s actions, only after …
How not to govern, Rivers State test case
The Rivers State Governor Mr Wike assumed office in May 2015, he claimed, and I accept, he had no co-operation from the preceding government of Rotimi Amechi. He therefore had no first hand knowledge of the state's financial wellbeing. He had no idea of the capital projects commissioned, progressed or completed. Less than a month …
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Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so by Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019.
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia …
Understanding James Baldwin and his commentary on race and America. I just brought this book and I recommend it.
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The Roger Stone Case Shows Why Trump Is Worse Than Nixon by Jeffrey Toobin
On March 21, 1973, President Richard Nixon and John Dean, the White House counsel, conferred in the Oval Office about ways to keep the Watergate scandal from consuming the Administration. The two men weighed the possibility of a pardon or commutation for E. Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate burglars. “Hunt’s now demanding clemency or …
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