THE one-word motto of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is “Change.” So resonant and powerful is the word “Change!” as a rallying cry that it was the veritable motor that drove APC to its historic victory in the 2015 elections. And this despite the many obstacles that the nature of the party’s emergence posed to its survival, causing many to predict its disintegration and death even before it could get its name printed on the ballots. For a populace that had watched for sixteen years as the Peoples Democratic Party laid the country to waste, change was not a mere slogan to their ears as they looked for hope and succour; change was the promise of a new beginning.

In a season of partisan frenzy, fair and objective reaction to matters in the public square is indeed a strenuous undertaking. This is even more so when folks who (mis)speak don the toga of leaders. But, perhaps, more importantly, democracy would lose its defining egalitarianism if it foreclosed the free expression of viewpoints by its adherents- including often unreasoned perspectives that seek to diminish and ridicule.

Lagos, the commercial nerve of the Nigerian economy is arguably the most populated state in the country, (with close to 20 million people) and the most industrialized. It is therefore of little surprise that the mega city generates about 13,000 metric tons of waste daily. 

We are all pretty aware of the so many influences, emotions and sentiments which becloud the senses, each time a Nigerian pens down anything on the ongoing war against insurgency in the Northeast and other parts of Nigeria.  The ink flows with a lot of inexplicable grumpiness against the Nigerian military.

LAST  week, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar were at each other’s jugular over ‘restructuring.’Atiku threw the first punch when he picked holes in Osinbajo’s speech at Minnesota, USA, Town Hall meeting, where he averred that Nigeria does not need ‘geographical restructuring’ but deep fiscal federalism that entails more powers for the states, good governance and checking of graft.