The recently concluded American presidential election has continued to produce shockers hitherto unknown in the modern history of a country reputed as a foremost model of democracy in the world.

George Santayana, American poet and philosopher it was who said that “those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Africans in general did not start to write their own history until the bottom half of the last century.

The Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) finally moved, last week, to fix new dates for the myriads of pending re-run elections earlier declared inconclusive by it in two states of the Federation – Lagos and Rivers States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Nothing, however, was said about the pending re-run for Anambra Central Senatorial District.

THE increasing clashes between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN or the Shi’ites) and other Muslim groups in the North is threatening to replace the Boko Haram terrorism which is gradually winding down, raising the possibility that the nation might simply slide from one religious conflict to another with no respite in-between.

IT is a well-documented fact that the Nigerian state does not truly care for the most vulnerable among its citizens.