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Maihaja: Understanding the new Sheriff at NEMA

Maihaja: Understanding the new Sheriff at NEMA

I am one Nigerian who keenly and unflinchingly monitored President Muhammadu Buhari’s electioneering campaigns. And after his victory at the general elections and eventual assumption of office as President of Nigeria in May 2015, I also devoted special attention in his speeches, beginning with the maiden address to the nation.

Buhari’s anti-corruption fight and the rule of law

Buhari’s anti-corruption fight and the rule of law

President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015 after emphasising his track record of tackling corruption, and his pledge to stop public officials from looting the country’s treasury, after he rightly declared: “if we don’t kill corruption, this corruption will kill us.”

I remember the 12th of June

I remember the 12th of June

They tried so hard to hide the truth. But truth never really goes away. It is like smoke. It eventually finds its way out. So June 12th is our Democracy Day? Well some who talk about it may see it as some distant political thing that happened under the military, in the age of impunity.

Afrikanwatch Memoir Review: Did our founding fathers dream of a united Nigeria?”

Afrikanwatch Memoir Review: Did our founding fathers dream of a united Nigeria?”

ON 1st  October 1964, as Nigeria celebrated the 4th  anniversary of her independence, the President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, in what may be considered a precognition, said in his message to Nigerians:”Let it not be said of us that we struggled all those years to win independence for our people and when we had the chance to build heaven on earth for them, we made a colossal mess of our country because of our selfish materialism… and allowed our private prejudice and partial affections to distort our interest to our motherland.”