THE Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, exercise being conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is another opportunity for millions of Nigerians to enrol in the national voter’s register. The exercise is in compliance with Section 10(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) which stipulates: “Without prejudice to Section 10(5) there shall be continuous registration of all persons qualified to be registered voters.”

Periods of social anomie open opportunities for delinquents to thrive in society. And so Nigerians discovered on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 when separate groups of self-styled Northern youths at a joint press conference in Kaduna, issued an infamous declaration that ordered Igbo living in the North to leave the region before October 1, 2017.

SECONDARY schools located around waterways are now the easy targets of daredevil kidnappers. Police and other security agents appear helpless as Lagos State and indeed the whole nation woke up to the shock of another audacious kidnap of students from their school hostel by gunmen penultimate week.

MEDIA hype is an awkward cachet of Nigerian public life. Not surprisingly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, in its media hype, indict, try and convict suspects in the media, and then, with its shoddy investigations and sloppy prosecution, loses the case in court. In the characteristic media show-off of Nigerian public officials, the Nigerian Army Chief of Staff, Tukur Buratai, told Nigerians that some army officers, in-concert with their political sponsors, were ponder a coup attempt. Many Nigerians thought that it was a military matter that should have been investigated (with other security agencies) and addressed by the military, and not thrown out into the public domain.

THE announcement that the Federal Government has set up a panel to look into the request for upward adjustment of the minimum wage from the existing N18,000 per month to the requested N56,000 per month is not surprising.