For us, the sudden demise of General Sani Abacha in the early hours of June 8, 1998 (Monday) would seem a God-send that effectively cleared the cloud of dark foreboding that had begun to gather the previous day.
Sunday Concord’s front-page lead that weekend had screamed “How Useni and Gwarzo teleguide Parties.” A transparently suicidal gambit at an illiberal time when bullets and bombs were being liberally dispensed against dissents in…
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