There is an abiding tendency in Nigeria to judge our leaders from the narrow spectrum of partisan politics, ethnicity or how one particular event associated with them has affected us – for good or ill

If taking five months to do what other nations require only maximum of four days to finish is regarded as wisdom here, then the two branches of government will have to explain to us and the whole world why none of the 10,000 Health Centres promised to Nigerians had been built despite the fact that a Minister of Health was appointed so late in 2015

Under Buhari in the 1980s, Nigeria expelled Ghanaians – giving rise to the Ghana-Must-Go epithet. Now, as fate would have it, Nigerians are now being hounded out of Ghana. They have Buhari to thank for that

As a Nigerian Christian, I regard the proscription order as a Sunni conspiracy against Shiites which might affect me and my family as innocent bystanders. Even if there are 10,000 Sunnis to one Shiite, that single one is entitled under our Constitution to worship as he/she likes. It should not be our business

The FG and Nigeria’s security chiefs must understand that what we have received is an ultimatum couched in diplomatic language and wrapped as defence of a citizen’s (their citizen) rights to freedom to practice religion which is guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution itself

The rule of law requires everybody, Presidents and paupers, to obey the orders of an independent judiciary. Those on the bench are the people designated to determine guilt or innocence once the Executive branch has done its own duty

Nigerian leadership had turned virtually everything they touch, including gold, into dust. RUGA is one of them

President Buhari himself should accept part of the blame. RUGA was hatched in secret; few people except close associates and supporters knew about it

The first twenty appointments made by the newly-elected President served notice to us that our hope may have been misplaced. Virtually all the important appointments went North

God always comes first in everything and to Him alone be the greatest glory. For a child not expected to live beyond the first week to turn 75 can only be attributed to Divine grace