— Angela Yvonne Davis (1944 – present)Sometime last week, news filtered in that the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, had passed away. He was a model bureaucrat whose three names begin with the letter ‘A’, hence his media-coined moniker during his heyday and throughout his lifetime as the man with the triple As, or simply Alhaji Alhaji. Unlike many blue-bloods and children of the nouveau riche today who detest hard labour but seek undeserved opportunities to become overnight multi-billionaires, Alhaji Alhaji opted to join the Nigerian Civil Service in 1964. The question is: how many of today’s privileged children are willing to endure the boring routine demands of the contemporary civil service? Alhaji Alhaji was a prince with a difference.