The presidency yesterday explained that the seeming slow pace of governance by ‎the Buhari administration is because the Augean stable being cleared by the administration requires “scrupulous and painstaking planning”.

The Presidential candidate of the United Progressive Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okerie said that already within 30 days of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration there have been positive results.

To the consternation of political associates, the sign of activity, as reflected by appointments and dismissals, have not been seen in the new administration. But that does not mean that the administration has been short of constructive engagements.

Economists, geologists and surveyors have long agreed that under the Nigerian soil are wealth and riches untold. But majority of Nigerians are wallowing in poverty. The Nigerian Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative, NEITI report suggests that there are about 40 different kinds of solid minerals and precious metals buried in Nigerian soil waiting to be exploited. The commercial value of Nigeria’s solid minerals has been estimated to run into hundreds of trillions of dollars, with 70 per cent of these buried in the bowels of Northern Nigeria.

Now that the US has demonstrated its commitment to equality before the law, by ensuring same-sex couples can now marry in all 50 states of the confederate following its historic Supreme Court’s ruling which gave marriage equality as a constitutional right throughout the country one will wonder if this trend will find its way to Nigeria.