IF we could call their brand of rulership governance, elected officials in Nigeria have just over four more weeks to do that. Thereafter they will give up the pretence that they are still interested in fulfilling their electoral promises and bringing the ‘dividends of democracy’ to the people.

Needless deaths from snake bites – By Rose Moses

THE signs get ever more evident that President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in being re-elected president in 2019. There is nothing wrong with this constitutionally. He is entitled to two terms in office, the Nigerian constitution says. That the question comes up at all owes much to the fact that until very recently very few people would have considered a Buhari presidency post-2019. The president had been ill for many months, taking no less than three so-called medical trips to the United Kingdom to seek medical attention even when Nigerians knew next to nothing about what ailed him.

The aura of nepotism surrounding the president already looks like a permanent stain

Finally, something different happened. And that was after much public outcry! Indeed, after waiting patiently for President’s Muhammadu Buhari’s reaction on the humongous act of corruption by two of his principal aides; after being kept in the dark for months by a government said to be fighting corruption over serious corruption allegation around the necks of suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and director- general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, the president, Monday, sacked the duo, a development received with mixed reactions.

ON this first day of November, 2017, a bill sponsored by the Benue State House of Assembly prohibiting open grazing of cattle goes into operation. The state government has vowed not to back down on the promulgation of this bill in spite of opposition from the herdsmen targeted by it.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has  yet to declare his interest in seeking re-election as Nigeria’s president. There has so far not been any categorical statement from him on the matter.

Going by happenings around us these days, Nigeria, it would appear, has become some kind of theatre of the absurd. Most people now anxiously stay glued to their electronic devices watching out for the latest episode of the tragicomedy that’s now our daily story lines.

AT the Eagle’s Square in Abuja during his inauguration on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari famously said in his inaugural address that he was a Nigerian original who belonged to no individual, group or any section of the country.

THERE might be fewer ways to get to the root of the feud between Ibe Kachikwu and Maikanti Baru than to question the role of President Muhammadu Buhari in the disagreement between these two of his lieutenants.

AS Nigeria marks its 57th year as a corporate entity, there is no greater issue that has got the people of this country exercised than that of her unity.

WHERE is the operational base of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, now? Where does the struggle for a separate Biafran nation as spearheaded by IPOB stand today? Where is Nnamdi Kanu, the ‘Jewish’ leader, spiritual godfather and Commander-in-Chief of the ‘armless’ IPOB army?

THE above could be the cry of Armageddon, reminiscent of Jesus’ anguished poser to Saul on his way to Damascus, from our much abused country, Nigeria, to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

While it may not be impossible that Alhassan may be doing Abubakar Atiku’s bidding, the truth also is that the very modest performance of the president has made his presidency very vulnerable

This is not a matter to be swept under the carpet; the matter at hand goes to the roots of the Buhari government’s so-called anti-corruption war