1. A Gathering Storm in Enugu: The APC’s Cautionary Call As the political dust begins to settle over the hills and valleys of Enugu State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stepped forward with a warning that cuts through the noise like a sharp machete clearing overgrown bush. Over the past weekend, the party’s state chapter urged the good people of the state—old and young, market women and civil servants, students and traders alike—to open their eyes wide and guard their minds against what it described as a “campaign of alarmism and disinformation” being waged by the Nigeria Democratic Congress…

David Groover first saw Joey Cusumano at a distance back in the early 1980s, and he saw him the way police officers are trained to see certain men: with suspicion, with patience, and from behind the glass of an unmarked car. It wasn’t personal. It was the job. As a detective in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Intelligence Bureau, assigned to the Chicago squad, Groover and his partner Gene Smith spent long hours keeping watch on Cusumano and an entire mug book of other figures connected to Anthony Spilotro’s criminal crew. Those were dangerous days in Las Vegas, when…