Musings by Garba Shehu

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There was time that the renowned Time Magazine put up the name of Adolph Hitler as a candidate for its annual “Man of the Year Award.” The whole idea, the magazine explained was in recognition of the profundity of the impact – good or bad – a man or woman may have made on the rest of humanity. This, understandably, caused an enormous outrage among many of their readers who asked the question “Why Hitler?”

Musings by Garba Shehu

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Anyone in doubt that Nigerian democracy is in dire straits and so thinks that we can sit back and bask in our democracy being better than what they have in the neighboring countries needs to read Alabi Williams’ expository interview with Professor Adele Jinadu (Guardian, Sunday April 8). Jinadu is a former President of the Nigerian Political Science Association and a man many will credit, along with a handful of others, of laying the intellectual foundations of this democracy.