Understandably, passions were inflamed following the last month’s anti-immigrant attacks that left seven people dead and many others displaced and injured in South Africa.

Zoning to unzone” the words of the legendary Nigerian politician and wordsmith, Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe continues to offer useful political metaphor in these times. But what those words suggest was that zoning political offices at that time reflected the stage of Nigerian politics which was still fragmented by ethnic differences.

As the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, takes over from President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29 after 16 years of democracy, the leader of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams advises him to give priority to the implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference.

A musket, according to Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, is a military hand firearm, particularly of an antiquated smoothbore kind. A musketeer, therefore, is someone, a soldier most likely, armed with a musket. Somehow, the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may be likened to musketeers using revenge mentality and threats of probe as muskets against opponents, especially members of the outgoing administration and African Independent Television (AIT).

No fewer than 20 people, including 12 terrorists, were killed, while scores sustained gunshot injuries when a group of suspected Boko Haram insurgents invaded Ngulde Village of Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.