Once Buhari was declared the winner of the presidential election in 2015, everybody’s thought turned to the persons who would be appointed ministers and the portfolio they would be given. In every forum in which the discussions took place, and despite the long delay in announcing his appointees, I declared that one name would be on the list and the portfolio he would be saddled with. The man is Lai Mohammed – the Minister of Information and Culture. Let me quickly add that I also felt it would be a mistake to offer him that portfolio. The reasons were very simple and let me set them out now.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike must have been greatly relieved when the Supreme Court last Wednesday confirmed him as the rightful winner of the 2015 governorship election in his state. The Apex Court upheld the elections of Wike with a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel whose lead judgment was read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. Not-withstanding that the details of the judgment will not be available until February 12, 2016, it is only fair at this point for Wike’s critics including this column to congratulate him for emerging victorious in the laborious venture called election in Nigeria.

The Nigerian National Assembly has done great disservice to Nigerians in the nineteen years since the restoration of the Republic. It has accomplished little, and it has more or less aided and abetted executive brigandage, and reduced public governance to a criminal enterprise. Nigerians themselves are in part to blame.

In different countries throughout the world, people are so preoccupied with the quest for primitive accumulation and acquisitiveness that they tend to forget those behavioural responses and social etiquette which make life so humane and fascinating.

The good news is, Nigeria is not on the top countries with the most dangerous cities to live in, but, the bad news is; that Lassa fever has entered Nigeria and not for the first time too.