On institutional efforts to get a level playing field, only INEC seemed to have gotten its posture correct while that of the police was poorly managed

At this year’s World Teachers Day celebration held last month, it was revealed that there were no less than 300,000 unqualified teachers in Nigerian schools. The figure which was released by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, was said to be 50 percent of teachers in the country.

The announcement a few days back by President Muhammadu Buhari that the present federal executive council would soon be expanded to bring in more ministers must have come as a welcome relief to some Nigerians.

In many heterogenous societies, particularly those in developing countries, a plethora of centrifugal forces often combine to stretch to breaking point, the fabric of solidarity which binds society together. This has been the experience of Nigeria in which every ethno-religious category is engulfed in mutual distrust and suspicion for one another.

When the Freedom of Information Act was enacted in 2011, many citizens mostly activists and journalists assumed that the nation had achieved a near revolution because through the Act the days of secrecy in governance ought to be over.