Nigeria: Reading the Day's Paper

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(On one moi-moi and a cup of water a day, secret agenda, other issues)

Out of habit I usually prefer to read the hard copy of any newspaper. Picking up the day's Daily Trust and a couple of other tabloids, I was not bothered with what the Trust Editor wanted me to read first: how can anybody believe that the Presidency would not have an Agenda after rushing through a "National Conference" almost at the tail-end of its' first-term? That some people want to force a "new" Constitution down our throat (or else) is no longer news. What is news are the characters acting out the script.

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