There are many sides to everybody. For Tonto Dikeh, it seems the side that is well known is the wild one.

A suicide bomber, yesterday, sneaked into a mosque along Ali Kotoko Road, near Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, leaving 26 dead and 28 critically injured, security sources assisting in the evacuation of victims said.

Bishop of the Kaduna Diocese of Anglican Diocese, Most Revd Josiah Idowu Fearon, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to go after super-rich Nigerians who, during the Jonathan administration, were accused of receiving money for political campaigns.

Dr. Haliru Bello Mohammed, from Kebbi State, just became the acting Chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the office vacated by Chief Tony Anenih.

One of the greatest disservices that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan avoided was his decision not to heed the counsel of some members of his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Attahiru Jega, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should be removed from office before the end of his tenure. This, in their reasoning, would have allowed for a more supportive appointee as new chairman of the election management body and, therefore, a smoother path to victory at the polls. But Jonathan refused to yield. And that is why Jega was able to see through his plan for the 2015 elections which has brought change to Nigeria.

Cultivated chaos! That is what Nigeria is today.

And that is what Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-in-Chief, has inherited. What would definitely compound Buhari’s problem are the number of things he cannot change. As at the time he was being sworn-in, last Friday, all he had were, 1461days to run his first term – one of the four years is a leap year. He cannot change that.

Now that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has formally ended, it is time for us to show interest in how to handle the reckless injury-time appointments he made. Although a renowned legal luminary Prof Itse Sagay has already used the appropriate words to describe the appointments as ‘morally improper and politically immature’, the posture of some analysts that the appointments be dissolved would be simplistic if not more juvenile. This is because a look at the modus operandi of Jonathan’s government does not in any way suggest that his last minute appointments were worse than those made much earlier.

President Muhammadu Buhari says officials of past administrations including ministers and those who served under the Jonathan regime are entitled to their full rights and privileges under the constitution and must not be subjected to any undue harassment and intimidation at the airports or at other points of entry and exit

From March 26, a Thursday, and some 48 hours before the 2015 presidential election, Sunday Vanguard, working in close collaboration with the Publicity Directorate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Organisation, and specifically the Director, Mallam Garba Shehu, we kept tab on the activities of the President and Commander-in-Chief (as President-elect). Yes, there have been one or two interviews with President Muhammadu Buhari, but when you compile the random thoughts of a President-in-waiting, it goes with the Biblical saying that “from the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks”, and it presents a broader perspective because, unlike the structured strictures of an interview setting, these random thoughts were devoid of the sometimes stifling interview setting which makes an individual more guided and guarded in response

Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad Coomasie, a former Inspector General of Police, is also the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).