The ignorant may not actually know our relationship. We share the struggle for democracy which conjured regard for the independent right of our people to vote and to make leaders over themselves.

MY dear President, permit me to speak to you directly through this open letter for many reasons. Some of those reasons include overzealous officials who prevent some good people with genuine advice from reaching you. I am a basically in this class Sir.

RECENTLY a fabricated story went viral on social and traditional media alleging that the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, was booed at a Town Hall forum organised by the Federal Ministry of Information in Enugu while trying to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged lopsided appointments.

The Federal Government’s renewed interest and deliberate policy on empowering Nigeria youths through skills acquisition, in partnership with INNOSON KIARA Academy, is expected to rejuvenate the economy.

Sadly many in the conservative core north remain unconvinced. For example the Arewa Consultative Forum issued a statement on the 7th of August in which they stated their total opposition to restructuring and instead of offering an olive branch of peace and understanding to its advocates who are predominantly in the south they issued the usual warnings of dire consequences if the matter is pushed too far.

“If Boko Haram kills Christians and burns down churches, we will slay Muslims and raze down mosques. We want to warn them that we, the Niger Delta youths, in this 21st century will not accept the killing of innocent Christians or the burning of churches. That if they try it in the north or any part of Nigeria, we the Niger Delta youths will not see any Muslim or mosque in the Niger Delta”- NIGER DELTA REVOLUTIONARY CRUSADERS, VANGUARD NEWSPAPER, 5th AUGUST, 2016.

If you think that the unlawful chaining of Korede Taiwo, a nine-year-old boy by his pastor father for allegedly stealing a piece of meat from his step mother’s pot of soup for about a month without food in Ogun State is a new thing in Nigeria, then you are on your own.

Come August 17, 2016, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the most popular and most populous political party in Africa, would be holding its national convention where it is expected that a new set of the party’s national working committee members would be elected to stir the ship of the opposition party back to its glory days.

Great Britain is a nation with a rich history: of empires, colonialism and industrial revolutions. Today, when we talk of geographical space and population, you won’t rank Britain at the top but that is not the case.

KANO, the ancient commercial nerve of northern Nigeria, home to the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote and the finest politicians this country has ever seen, the likes of Abubakar Rimi, Aminu Kano and Maitama Sule “danmasaninkano” just to mention but a few.

THE people, according to a Vanguard Newspaper columnist, Mr. Tonie Iredia deserve to know the nature of continuity to expect in Edo State after Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s tenure – ending in November 12th, 2016.

One does not need the rare gift of clairvoyance to see through the palpable hopelessness, anguish and anomie across the Nigerian landscape in these uncertain times. Sad enough, the country becomes a clime peopled by innumerable economic and social underdogs consigned to the abyss of abnegation and despair by a crop of malignant elite leadership bereft of any visionary fervent and futuristic promptings.

I am glad that Father Mbaka of the Catholic Church has finally seen the light and that he has denounced the Buhari regime.

Lagos is that state the average Nigerian wants their state to be like – a thriving economy in the midst of national recession, infrastructural development at a far more advanced stage than the rest of the country, a responsive and well paid civil service. Lagos is a country in itself, insulated from the woes and perils that have become the trademark of the nation as a whole.

It was most gratifying to read Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s admission last Friday that the judicious management of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) has helped advance the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s fight against corruption and saved Nigeria from imminent collapse.