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Last Thursday saw the gathering of certain personalities for the presentation of
Aisha Buhari: Being Different, a book about First Lady Aisha Buhari. The biography or more appropriately, hagiography was written by Senior Special Adviser to the President on Women Affairs and Administration, Hajo Sani. Comprising a mere 46 pages broken into ten chapters, it barely says much. When you consider the caliber of people gathered at the occasion and the amount of money they reportedly raked a whopping N150m over that pamphlet, you wonder why we play too much in Nigeria.
First, I think there should be a law that explicitly bans public officials including their consorts and aides from “launching” books or similar personal projects while in office. From the days of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who used his office to finagle out a presidential library, the presidency has been pimped for personal gains. Their exploitation of power is underst
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On Tuesday, Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, implored the police to use their rifles to defend themselves against members of the Indigenous People of Biafra. Uzodimma spoke against the backdrop of Monday’s attacks on the federal prison and state police command headquarters by yet-to-be-identified criminals. He was with the now-dismissed Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, who visited the state to assess the damage caused by the twin attack. Uzodimma, understandably embarrassed and self-defensive that such an attack occurred on his watch and a few metres away from the Government House, his official residence, urged the police to defend themselves. That was a rather tactless thing to say in the circumstances.