$49.8bn saga: How Jonathan, Sanusi face-off settled
IF revenge, as the saying goes, is best served cold, then Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was well prepared for his encounter with Dr. Mohammed Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano, in Abuja on Thursday September 26. But if, as the scripture says, a gentle reply turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger, we have the emir to thank for the truce that eventually came between these two leaders, eleven years after their faceoff. I hope it will endure. A select collection of Nigeria's elite class and some foreign nationals had gathered at the auditorium of the beautiful Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja for the launch of a book coauthored and edited by Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, Minister of Finance and later Minister of National Planning in the Jonathan administration. The Shamsuddeen Usman Foundation, recently founded by Usman's children in his hounour, was also introduced to the audience. The emir is one of the 12 contributors to the book, titled, 'Public Policy and Agents Interes...