{
  "id": 914384,
  "title": "The Prince and the Politician: Machiavelli’s Enduring Grip on Nigerian Power Politics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/the-prince-and-the-politician-machiavellis-enduring-grip-on-nigerian",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T20:41:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/the-prince-and-the-politician-machiavellis-enduring-grip-on-nigerian-power-politics/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "By Hassan Husaini In the theatre of power, some scripts never age. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, written five centuries ago, remains the definitive manual for understanding political ambition, betrayal, and survival. Its principles find fertile ground in Nigeria’s contemporary political drama, where the fallout between President Bola Tinubu and former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai offers […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}