IN recent times, the spate of attacks on Lagos traffic managers has increasingly become worrisome. Officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have been at the receiving end of various forms of maltreatments from some unruly armed security agents, errant and violent motorists, and other traffic violators.

AFTER weeks of anxious waiting by young Nigerians who participated in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, the Professor Ishaq Oloyede-led Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has finally released results of the 2019 edition of the examination. The examination held from April 11 through 17. Since JAMB raised the bar in its use of computer-age technology in its conduct of matriculation examinations, the release of the latest results must be one of the most anticipated because of the unusual delay.

Since the inception of democracy in Nigeria most politicians from this part of the world have often been described as corrupt, fraudulent, self-centered deaf to the yearning and aspiration of the people and even evil.

DIAGNOSING the problems confronting Nigeria, Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, we consistently accuse the military’s long stay in power as a major cause.

Elections to a large extent have been won and lost but the drumbeats of political manipulations and propaganda are still echoing in the background.