Last week, I wrote about meeting President Muhammadu Buhari in London and hearing him make a speech (and answer questions from the audience) when he came to London to attend anti-corruption conferences that were hosted by Patricia Scotland, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The flight to Maiduguri, last week Tuesday evening, had been delayed for more than three hours. And at a point, not a few passengers had become apprehensive that it might be cancelled. Eventually though, we took off and one hour and ten minutes or so later, we landed.

The activities of the new Boko Haram – the wave of barbarous hordes in the form of herdsmen – have reached a crescendo and all people of goodwill must feel perturbed by the ugly development.

One of the casualties of military rule on the political psyche of Nigeria is that politics has lost its philosophical personality. The only thing that drives people into politics is the quest for power because with power you have easy access to the public till.

ONE of the side effects of being a population with an acute experience and understanding of injustice has been the sense of entitlement these feelings produce. Successive governments had little impact, so we began to feel we were owed everything, whether we were ready to contribute and work for those advantages or not.