There are few examples of government-guided sectors that have drawn positive marks as the country’s pension industry. In an environment where government affairs are run with laxity and corruption, it is gladdening that the involvement of a new pension regime in 2004 turned around an industry that was before then steeped in sleaze and maladministration.

IN what was reminiscent of a scene from our inglorious past military regimes, some officers and men of the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Safety, NAFSI, recently took the law into their hands. They invaded the Osun State University’s College of Education, Ipetu-Ijesa campus, and launched an offensive against students and staff of the institution.

A watershed in transforming the workings of government was reached on Thursday, May 18, 2017, when the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, signed three executive orders with the combined aim of promoting the ease of doing business.

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.