Nigeria’s television news leader, Channels Television, is 21 years old. Last Wednesday, it closed trading at the Nigerian Stock Exchange as part of a week-long line up of events to celebrate its 21st anniversary.

As part of the determination of government to ensure hitch-free elections in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari last Wednesday swore in six new Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to strengthen the work of the commission. On the occasion, the President charged the commissioners to be firm and fair in the discharge of their duties adding that his government would rely on them to help consolidate the integrity of the electoral body.

Our President can quarrel with Asiwaju or any other APC leader till 2019 and beyond. Such quarrels may turn out to be good for the nation because they can serve as a check on each other in a nation where opposition political parties are dysfunctional

All over the world, the continued survival of nations is premised on the viability of societal institutions as every such institution strives to meet the purpose for which it was established. For instance, the Post Office which is largely despised in Nigeria serves elsewhere as a tool for national development. In the United Kingdom, unending improvements in technology notwithstanding, service delivery in postal services has over the years remained superb.

Our law makers have successfully developed a trait of unwittingly putting themselves up for sale. Once compromised, they are never painstaking enough to add a bit of logic to their bizarre conduct thereafter