PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s extension of the tenures of  Service Chiefs is not only an endorsement of their services since the past 31 months of this administration it is also a call to work harder in securing the nation.

RECENT agitations for and against the dissolution of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, are reflective of the self-centred zealousness that has derailed the attainment of the goals of the regional development agency.

Nigerians have now resigned to their sad fate where the power sector is concerned. Privatisation of the power sector and the creation of the Distribution Companies, DISCOs, by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration have failed to provide the relief promised to the people. Power generation and distribution remain uncertain today as they were on May 29, 2015.

BUT for the unassailable fourteen-point dominant lead Nigeria stamped on the earlier touted “zone of death”, the Group B of Africa’s World Cup qualification efforts, the nation could have been thrown into deep mourning after it was sanctioned by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) on Tuesday, December 12, 2017.

THE ongoing combined security sweep of Boko Haram terrorists who have infiltrated the nation’s capital, Abuja, should not only continue until the last vestige of them is removed from the law-abiding populace, it should also be a regular exercise.

THE Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Finance, recently commenced investigative actions over alleged misconducts by the suspended Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo.

LAST week the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that with Yuletide approaching, the smuggling of rice, fish and poultry is increasing. Apart from these, any knowledgeable observer also knows that other prohibited essential food items such as vegetable oil, tomato puree, sugar and pasta among others, are also being brought in illegally by importers.

THE Muhammadu Buhari regime and its predecessor, the Goodluck Jonathan government, in the past five years, struggled hard to save Nigerians from the harrowing experience of fuel scarcity, long queues at filling stations and the accompanying high cost of petroleum products.

WE join millions of Nigerians of goodwill to welcome back Master Ali Ahmadu, the six year-old little boy crippled when motorcycles ridden by Boko Haram Islamic insurgents broke his spine in Chibok. He was wheeled into an aircraft three months ago but returned from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday this week striding confidently and happily.

COMPLAINTS over alleged excesses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force have assumed a tumultuous point, with the floating last week of #ENDSARS, a campaign to scrap the squad in the social media.

THERE are many indicators in our body polity to prove that Nigeria is still transiting from military rule to democracy, even though the Army vacated the political scene nearly 20 years ago. One of them is the continued handling with impunity of funds belonging to the states by the Federal Government.

THE decision of the Borno State Government to convert the home of Muhammad Yusuf, the late founder of Boko Haram into a museum is a welcome development. However, certain issues need to be put to rest in actualising this laudable project.

The ball is in the court of Nigeria, not just because of her leading position in the sub-region and Africa as a whole, but more importantly, because our citizens constitute the largest population of the victims of the trans-Saharan human misery.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been acclaimed for the seemingly seamless conduct of the November 18, 2007, governorship election in Anambra State.

THE Federal Government must move quickly to save about 65,000 inmates in our prisons nationwide from imminent starvation by providing adequate funds for their feeding. We find as callous and incomprehensible a situation whereby contractors who provide the rations for our prisoners have not been paid for over two years highly callous and irresponsible.