ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Gimba Kakanda, and 17 others as Special Advisers and Senior Special Assistants for the office of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima.
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Roughly three years ago, I penned my thoughts on the impending coup culture in Africa in the pages of this Daily Trust column, dated August 23, 2020, with the title, ‘A Warning Shot from Bamako’. In those lines, I underlined the implications of the coup that had just unfolded in Mali, casting a discerning gaze towards the far-reaching consequences for democracies delicately woven across the continent. “Africa must prepare for the shockwave of the coup,” I wrote, and that it “transmits signals capable of disrupting the continent’s fragile democracy.”
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