ONE word can be aptly used to appraise President Mohammadu Buhari’s one year in office: discontent. Nigerians are thoroughly disappointed by the turn of events. The President and his party the All Progressive Congress, APC, had promised so much, but so far fulfilled so little.

The President’s decision to reallocate funds once earmarked for the fuel subsidy and commit these to other more socially productive services and undertakings was a difficult decision.

It is always common for analysts to recommend constitutional amendments virtually on every public discourse on Nigeria’s development, while they hardly discuss lack of open governance in our leadership, a culture that is impeding developments and hurting our people especially the poor. Agreed the constitution may require amendments sometimes to correct some anomalies, but what about compliance?. It supposes that even if we have the best constitution in the world, it still makes no sense if they cannot be complied with. The quickest that comes to mind is the fundamental Rights Provision under the chapter four of the 1999 Constitution. This provision has been observed more in the breach as suspects or accused are still been detained for as long as possible by the whims and caprices of powerful individuals with police collaboration. People are still been deprived of their liberty and many other provisions that are violated daily.

FOR too long now, Nigeria has become synonymous with epileptic power supply. Without doubt, the country harbours the most generators of all nations on earth, including brands and sizes. Today, we have graduated from epileptic supply to virtually zero supply of electricity to our citizens. No one in the government seems to be worried about […]

THE political history of Nigerian democracy cannot be complete without outlining auspicious roles being played by the electoral umpire—Independent National Electoral Commission,

The narrative of the last election was deliberately made simple to fool the simpleminded: portray Nigeria as a ship heading for the bottom of the ocean unless the captain of the ship is removed because that captain was corrupt, unable to secure the land and the economy was also spiralling out of his control. In the aftermath of that electoral mutiny spurred by the greatest and most ideologically diverse members of the ruling elite since 1960, the captain was removed and anothercaptain put in command. Ever since then however, the worst fears have been realised particularly in the economy, subliminally with security and apparently with the unity of Nigeria. President Goodluck Jonathan was referred to as the “Ijaw Christian”

INDEED the momentous phone call by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan conceding victory to President Muhammad Buhari after the last general elections will indelibly remain a significant milestone in the annals of Nigeria’s political history.

THERE is at least one concerted-effort activity that every free, hale and hearty Nigerian does every day and that is, move. From home to school, to the market, to the office; from neighbourhood to neighbourhood; from one state to another; from city to village and vice versa; from one country to another, and so on. We are always on the move and the largest chunk of this movement is by road, whether on foot, bicycle, tricycle, “okada”, by car, bus, “molue”, you name it.

Unless senior citizens of the Niger Delta and patriots rise now to talk sense into the empty heads of the people that call themselves the Avengers and the Concerned Militant Leaders, a full-scale war is imminent in the Niger Delta, and it is going to be bloody and destructive.

I MAKE this submission because the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is trying to railroad the government of President Muhammed Buhari into a major policy blunder that could set Nigeria back by many decades!