The Post-Mortem of an Empire: How the 'Abuja mosquito' displaced Fintiri’s political family, by Abubakar M. Kareto In a recent and deeply compelling commentary, the respected writer Alhaji Iyawa invoked a potent psychological and political warning from Islamic history: the downfall of King Namarud (Nimrod). Known widely across the Muslim-North of Nigeria as ‘Lamarudu,’ he was a monarch whose hegemony reportedly eclipsed even the tyrannical Pharaoh of Moses’ era. Namarud’s intoxication with power was absolute. His arrogance led him to claim divinity and decree the execution by fire of Prophet...