FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, added the ‘’rank” of an octogenarian to his epaulettes of a retired Army General and two-time Nigerian leader on Saturday, 5th March, 2017.

After 11 years of gruelling legal battles, two of the six former police officers accused of killing six traders at a checkpoint in Abuja – Emmanuel Baba and Ezekiel Acheneje –were sentenced to death

When Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commenced his tours of Niger Delta communities in January this year, most sceptical observers saw them as just another round of jamborees by the Federal Government to buy time and sustain the current relative calm which pervades the oil-rich Niger Delta. The area had, hitherto, been wracked by a riot of militant attacks of crude oil infrastructure.

That millions of Nigerians lost their jobs last year should come as no surprise to anybody with or without a basic understanding of economics. Virtually in every corner of Nigeria, businesses have closed down, companies down-sized their staff, abandoned projects formerly designed for expansion are forced into liquidation by banks and other creditors.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari went outside the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to appoint a new Comptroller-General for the organisation in the person of Hameed Ali, a retired Army colonel. It was seen as part of his agenda to fight corruption in the Customs, a Federal agency which plays a leading role in harnessing non-oil revenues of the nation.