President Muhammadu Buhari entered the Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power unencumbered. His election was also devoid of the rancour that characterised past elections in Nigeria. As a result of this, the problem of legitimacy did not arise at all. What a lucky president.

Limited supplies of the yellow fever vaccine is stalling full response efforts to the yellow fever outbreak in parts of Africa. It takes six months to develop the vaccine.

Presumably this principle is being pushed on us because the West believes that it is an effective way to stop corruption but more importantly by pursuing the money, they are better able to find those fomenting radicalisation and paying for terrorism.

“IF I had known, if I was told, if my in laws had not insisted on tradition, my marriage would still be intact.” These were the words of 20-year-old Fatimah Abubakar, of Tureta Local Government in Sokoto State. Fatimah’s marriage maybe under trial but she has another worry in her youthful mind for now.

A multinational professional services firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, yesterday called on Nigeria as well as other Africa countries to reform its regulatory, fiscal and licensing systems, to attract investors to the oil and gas business.