Mr. John Kerry, the American Secretary of State, President Barack Obama’s confidante and Mrs. Hilary Clinton’s successor in office, came to Nigeria the other day.

In his recent article titled ‘This is the Change’, presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu embarked on an arduous but unsuccessful task of attempting to justify the economic hardship, biting hunger, political retrogression, judicial rascality, executive recklessness, electoral inconclusiveness, etc which have all become the indelible insignia of the Buhari-led administration.

IN penning these words to his wife, Abigail and their five children, Adams was obviously under the clear understanding that the legislature was the anvil upon which every hammer of public discontent descended. Aged only 39 at the time, Adams had just been elected to the USA’s first Continental Congress, as delegate from Massachusetts, in 1774.

When I heard the news that the government of Enugu State under Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has inaugurated a steering committee to pioneer free school feeding programme for primary pupils of one to three, my heart was filled with joy, not because of the initiative itself alone but the timing.

Nothing is more indicative of the Federal Government’s misplaced priorities and more reflective of their total and complete moral degeneration and psychotic paranoia than their behaviour towards the owner of a dog that was named Buhari. Consider the following.

Nigerians are known to disagree on issues, however, there seems an agreement on the democratic imperative as a non-negotiable value to be pursued and sustained by participants.

On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender.

President Muhammadu Buhari entered the Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power unencumbered. His election was also devoid of the rancour that characterised past elections in Nigeria. As a result of this, the problem of legitimacy did not arise at all. What a lucky president.

THE several statements put out by various Christian associations in Osun and Lagos state on the judgments held by the courts in the cases for or against the ban of hijab in public schools, have been predictably insensitive, somewhat chauvinist, but unsurprising in a country where religion romances politics.

Amid allegations of mismanagement at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, government  sacked the last Board  and appointed a sole administrator to run the place. However, there is a renewed hope that the Federal Government has realized its past mistake and has decided to turn a new leaf in the management of the NDDC. It […]