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Trump’s business career has long been characterized as embodying “con-artist” tactics: aggressive promotion, leveraging his personal brand for high-margin or low-substance ventures, heavy debt leverage, selective truth-stretching in marketing, and frequent legal disputes.
Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (born 1967), a Nigerian lawyer and politician from the Ikwerre ethnic group in Rivers State, exemplifies the dynamics of political patronage, godfatherism, loyalty, and power consolidation in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. His career trajectory, from local government chairman to state governor and federal minister, highlights how personal networks, resource control (especially oil-derived revenues), strategic alliances, and public confrontations shape Nigerian politics.
The response by the President's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Cardinal John Onaiyekan's television interview reveals a troubling misunderstanding of constitutional democracy. It also exposes a growing tendency within this administration to confuse criticism with disloyalty and accountability with discourtesy.
Nigeria's army has been described as mighty on paper many of its soldiers 'ghosts' who exist only on the payroll, much of its equipment stolen and sold to insurgents."The Economist, October 2021
Whether the subject is healthcare, trade, infrastructure, peace in the Middle East or now Iran, there is a familiar rhythm. An announcement. A flourish. A declaration that success is “very close.” Then another announcement. Then another. Like a magician whose favourite trick is promising that the rabbit will appear in just one more hat.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 