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  Before I could reply, there was a command: “Come straight to the Residence.” Even though Colonel Mustapha Dennis Onoyiveta, aide de camp (ADC) to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and I were friends and often took liberties with each other, the tone with which he spoke on that night of May 5, 2010, was rather unusual. Curiously, I had just left the same Residence (the official home of the president) where I was to keep an appointment with the First Lady, who, as soon as I arrived, was called upstairs. By the time Mustapha’s call came, I was at my apartment to dismiss the PHCN official I had earlier invited to rectify an electrical fault.  While I felt a bit irritated by the commanding tone in his voice, I nonetheless heeded the colonel’s instruction and returned back to the Residence. Click to Download

In mid 2006, ANC in South Africa discovered that five of its senior officials had become billionaires and accounted for 70% of Black Economic Empowerment deals in 2005.  Efforts were made to control this, e.g. by limiting the number of opportunities for benefiting from “previously disadvantaged status” to one, as advocated by the ANC Secretary General) and to broaden the impacts of empowerment impacts (Sunday Times 6/8/2006:1). Click to Download