THE long-awaited Inauguration Day 2023 has arrived! Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Eagle Square, Abuja. Today is also a public holiday to mark the change of batons at the federal and state levels. After today’s fanfare, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima […]

THREE days hence, Monday, May 29, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Eagle Square, Abuja. It has been a very harrowing time for the ordinary people who have had very little to smile about. A president who swept into office in 2015, having benefited from […]

THE resurrected failed Abuja CCTV contract scandal is just another evidence of how corruption and indolence among public officeholders have led to the current state of state failure. Following the upsurge of insecurity in Abuja, the President Goodluck Jonathan administration approved the contract for the installation of Close Circuit Television, CCTV, in strategic parts of […]

ON Monday, May 22, 2023, Nigerians glowed with pride as the long-awaited Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company finally opened its doors for business. To show how significant the event was, President Muhammadu Buhari led five other African presidents to unveil the gargantuan project. The Refinery boasts intimidating credentials. It is the largest single-train refinery in […]

MANY well-meaning Nigerians heaved sighs of relief when the Federal Government announced in April 2023 its decision to postpone the proposed national population census. The exercise, which was conceived five years earlier, was billed for March 29, 2023. It was initially shifted to April 2 and finally to May 3, 2023 before the outright indefinite […]