He’s been indicted on rico charges, but how does the former President stack up against actual dons? Murray Kempton, the greatest newspaper columnist New York has ever known, was both a moralist and an ironist, particularly as he chronicled the lives, the crimes, and the decline of the Cosa Nostra in the pages of Newsday and the Post. …
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Diezani Alison-Madueke A former Nigerian minister has been charged with bribery offences following a National Crime Agency investigation. Diezani Alison-Madueke, aged 63, who also served as president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), was a key figure in the Nigerian government between 2010 and 2015. The NCA suspects she accepted bribes during …
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Atiku Bagudu Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy - Bosun Tijani, Minister of State, Environment and Ecological Management - Ishak Salako Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy - Wale Edun Minister of Marine and Blue Economy - Bunmi Tunji Minister of Power - Adedayo Adelabu Minister of State, Health and Social …
Nigeria’s democracy has been fragile and fluctuating since independence. Successive governments have struggled to create a sense of national unity in a complex country whose borders were drawn by British colonialists, incorporating more than 200 ethnic groups. Democratization and development have progressed at different speeds in the country’s disparate regions. The less-developed north is more …
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Both men were not always allies. In fact, at the time Mr Bagudu was helping Mr Abacha steal Nigeria dry, Mr Tinubu was financing some political and civil society actors demanding the dictator's exit. Atiku Bagudu President Bola Tinubu has nominated as minister, Atiku Bagudu, the man who helped late dictator Sani Abacha steal and …
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