We believe this arrangement is untidy and immoral. Public office is not a personal patrimony of anyone. We strongly believe that once an appointed occupant of a public office becomes ambitious to run for election, he or she should quit to devote full attention to the new pursuit.

NIGERIA is languishing at the bottom of best practices in most areas of human endeavours. These are grave indications that this country is being poorly run, and this has nothing to do with particular political parties or regimes. This country is sitting precariously on wrong foundations and truly needs restructuring and redirection.

We are even more puzzled that, according to Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja (the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA) the Agency paid a whopping N400 million in demurrage to clear the said rice valued at N414 million. Maihaja is also under the House Committee’s radar for allegedly awarding N1.6 billion contracts to non-existing companies.

Codeine has joined the ranks of other toxic drugs such as tramadol, the sniffing of glues and pit toilets, and queer admixtures of toxic substances (which in urban slang is referred to as “science student”) to create the picture of a drug abuse time-bomb waiting to explode.

Complicating the workers’ minimum wage conundrum is the fact that the Federal and state governments spend about 70 per cent of their annual budgets on overheads, including salaries and pensions, leaving very little for development