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The management of the University of Lagos, yesterday, ordered the immediate closure of the institution, ‎following students’ protests over epileptic power supply and poor water supply.

WHEN Major General Muhammadu Buhari was announced as the winner of the 2015 presidential election, on March 31 and eventually sworn-in as president on May 29, 2015, it meant many things to different people. To the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it meant loss of power after 16 years in the saddle. To then President Goodluck Jonathan, he became the first incumbent to lose re-election in Nigeria.

Whichever way you look at the 2015 presidential election, ultimately, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was a gallant contestant; he did the unfamiliar in this part of terra firma — for the first time in Nigeria, an incumbent President accepted defeat. Again, a President seen by many as weak actually reached into the recesses of his psyche and drew inner strength to unflex taut muscles and let go, preferring the way of peace to that of conflict, the beginning of which all may know and see, but whose end not all will see and know.

The significance of it was not lost on many when last month Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu moved the annual colloquium hosted on his birthday from Lagos to Abuja, the federal capital. The annual colloquium had in recent past been a forum for the political class to ponder Nigeria’s socio-political milieu, and of course, an opportunity to celebrate the man generally applauded as the Pathfinder.