AS the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari winds up within the next nine days, it is understandable that Nigerians are looking back at the passing four years to see if (and where) the “change” the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, promised showed up beyond mere propaganda.

ON April 21, 2019, 25-year-old Akeem Akinsanya was killed by a bullet shot by an officer of the Zonal Intervention Squad of Zone 2 Police Command at Iyana Coker area of Ifo, Ogun State. Before Akinsanya, 20-year-old Ada Ifeanyi and her boyfriend were also shot dead by a police officer in the Ajegunle area of Lagos on April 13, 2019.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, inaugurated the North East Development Commission, NEDC, with retired General Paul Tarfa as its Chairman. The work of the Board is to rehabilitate the zone which has been devastated by the twin evils of Boko Haram Islamic terrorism and the massive depletion of the Lake Chad.

NFIU also instructed that no cash withdrawal of more than N500, 000 per day should be authorised by financial institutions except when done through valid cheques and electronic transfers.

The “bandits” that had held Zamfara State by the jugular have spread their mayhem into adjoining Niger, Kaduna and Katsina states, and the fringes of Sokoto State, though the Army insists they are fleeing from the ongoing “Operation Scorpion Sting III” in Zamfara State.