For back-to-back work meetings, I slipped on Lanvin camouflage ballet flats with a super soft army-fatigues jumpsuit (below): maternity garb that I bought used on eBay eight years ago.
At the height of the violence, policemen were said to be demanding tens of thousands of naira, the local currency, from passers-by in order to do their job.But if the Lagos police are accused of being too soft, the army is accused of being much too hard when it charged into the Niger Delta.
The hearings stopped in 1999 after a military coup brought Gen. Pervez Musharraf to power but were revived in January at the instigation of Justice Chaudhry, who is eager to disprove critics who accuse him of going soft on the powerful army.
But on closer inspection, the loose-fitting clothes, in sizes 1 to 5 (3 is a medium), are audacious indeed, shifting shape, mood and proportion like an army of soft-skinned Transformers.
"They deserve it" is the kind of callous remark reserved for what many now condemn in blanket terms as "terrorists".Particularly in big cities, Egyptians by and large continue to rally behind their army, whose soft-spoken chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has proved a persuasive television performer.
Our correspondent says the bombing could signal a shift in strategy by al-Qaeda-inspired militants in Sinai, from attacks on the police and army, to softer targets.
They are unnerved by the rift with Israel, and insist that the prime minister is too soft on the pro-secular army.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he denied claims that the "This is belonging 2018" campaign showed the army had "gone soft".
Led by Red Bull, a disorganized army of supercharged soft drinks has overtaken bottled water as the fastest-growing category in the beverage business.
Mr Kim says the South Korean army has gone soft over the past few years and needs to toughen up.
Albanians respect British troops, "but the other armies are seen as soft by the Albanians," he said.
