It was the day after Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor in Las Vegas.  This time the fight was in Lagos and it was better value for money than the over-hyped bore-fest in Vegas.  In one corner was a former (or current or retired, the truth is out there somewhere) Deputy Superintendent of Police and current senator representing Bauchi Central Isa Misau (even his name is in dispute) and in the opposite corner was the police force's public relations officer Moshood Jimoh.

The "ref" Seun Okinbaloye of Channels TV struggled to restrain them and would have been better served sitting between the two combatants.

The fight was over who was telling truth, Misau or the police, or none of the above, over what was first started by Misau, who claimed last week that the Inspector-General of Police  Ibrahim Idris was collecting 10bn naira ($27.7m) monthly for the deployment of over 50,000 policemen to oil companies, banks, and private individuals who made regular and unaccounted for payments to the police. 

The police responded to these allegations, quicker than they usually respond to distress calls in Nigeria, by counter-claiming that Misau "deserted" the force and that they were looking for him.  Bringing both sides to the Channels TV ring was pure drama, but it was hard to discern who was telling the truth.