Review with Muhammad

It has become part of the daily feeds we encounter these days that Sudan is thrown into full pledged conflict ignited by power greed of two Generals. Though, some have a working theory that the conflict is more of a proxy war between United States of America, its allies and Russian Federation, this I intend to address at the end. The conflict is between the Chief of Sudan Army, General AbdulFatah Al-Burhan and the Head of Sudan paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Force (RSF); General Dogalo (Hamedti). The duo were hitherto friends who worked together in overthrowing President Omar Al-Bashir's regime in 2019 when full scale protest against his three decades dictatorship was waged for days in Sudan by pro-democracy activists. A transition government was then formed headed by civilian, Hamdan and General Al-Burhan as the Chief of Army staff with his counterpart, General Dogalo AKA Hamedti overseeing the Rapid Support Force (RSF). Why would a country have two independent military...

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s mother was kidnapped in their village of Owashi-Uku in Delta State of Nigeria in December 2012 and the ransom demanded by the kidnappers was nothing short of her daughter’s resignation from her position as Finance Minister. Wasn’t that odd? What was she doing in that office that some forces desperately wanted her out? This book was able to highlight some. When President Goodluck Jonathan first offered her the position of Finance Minister, she was bullied not to accept the offer, painting so many bad images of her, manipulating facts and making her previous assignments in Nigeria as worthless and even harmful. She further narrated in details, the scam behind fuel subsidy in which oil marketers increasingly defrauded Nigerian treasury of billions of Naira in the name of subsidizing fuel, some of which were not even imported to Nigeria.  Fuel subsidy was completely phased out in 2004 when she was the Finance Minister for President Olusegun Obasanjo, but in 200...