Nigeria, Sept. 4 -- After coming under heavy scrutiny and criticism from northern elites on the distribution of federal resources and appointments, the Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication to the President, Mr Sunday Dare, published a "Corrected Neutral Framing of FEC Approvals." Mr Dare's chart punctured the howling vituperations of certain northern elites, revealing that 40.3 per cent of federal projects - twice as much as Lagos has received, and ten times more than the rest of the South West - have been invested in the North-West alone.

But while Mr Dare's chart has left this group of northern elites scrambling for new talking points to advance their political agenda, a more worrying yet familiar injustice escaped public ...