THE eleven Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, have declared war against consumers of power as they have embarked on mass disconnections throughout Nigeria. From Lagos to Port Harcourt, Benin to Kano and Kaduna to Abuja, consumers continue to lament as the DISCOs disconnect them from the national grid over indebtedness.

Each year, a significant number of Nigerians travel to India and the UK for treatments ranging from cardiac surgeries, neurosurgeries, cosmetic surgeries, orthopedic surgeries, and renal transplant surgeries. The penchant of Nigerian leaders, past and present, to patronise foreign health institutions is legendary.

If truly the fasting was for the worship of Allah and not for the sake of tradition, then, it will be a huge step towards self-rededication and national rebirth. Fasting develops in a person the real spirit of unity, love, brotherhood and justice which are required for national stability and development. 

IRRESPECTIVE of whatever legal and political reservations being advanced, we are convinced that the Federal Government has done the right thing by officially recognising the late Chief Moshood Abiola as the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Also, the two major political parties have tried to make political capital from the NTYTRA. President Buhari even put it as an item in his 2018 Democracy Day broadcast and gathered a cross-section of youths when he signed it with flourish.