THERE can be humour in serious matters; and I nearly fell off my perch, laughing till tears came to my eyes, when I heard that the zany, iconoclastic entertainer, Charley Boy Oputa, is heading a new “movement” known as #OurMumuDonDo!

It is the moral right of any to criticise Buhari for staying ‘too long’ on medical treatment, it is not their ‘legal right’ to compel him to return or to resign unless they can show a law upon which their claim can be based

AS we begin the homerun to 2019, many politicians are understandably hungry to be the next president of Nigeria. Only one appears to be doing so in a bold and emphatic manner: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former two-term Vice President of Nigeria and (putatively) a member of the ruling All Progressives Alliance, APC. I choose my words carefully because you and I know Atiku’s penchant to jump from one political party to another. Since he started running for president in 1993, he has never run on the same party platform twice. It is unlikely he will consummate his next presidential run in the APC if ailing President Muhammadu Buhari runs for a second term.

THERE are critical segments of our    society that have not been properly assimilated in the scheme of things; hence we have suggested consistently in this Column that there is the crying need to return to a modified Regional System of Government. We have advocated the restructuring of the country into eight Regions under which the Middle Belt minorities of the old North; the Mid-Western minorities of the old West; and the Calabar Ogoja Rivers, COR, State Movement of the old East will be properly assimilated, once and for all. For too long, these minorities have been agitating for their own separate Regions.

What we must not allow ourselves to forget is that the undisputable failure of national leadership is at once the cause, symptom and effect of the violence that is ripping Nigeria apart