Ladies and gentlemen, of course you are no doubt aware that the most lucrative industry in Nigeria at the moment is paying get well visits to President Muhammadu Buhari in London.

It was Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of America that once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. According to Murphy’s Law, “anything that may go wrong will”.

Most State Governors, in exercise of their privilege of Prerogative of Mercy go round the various prisons in the country from time to time and grant pardon to some inmates who are serving various terms of imprisonment, some awaiting trial for various offences.

In recent weeks, the city of Lagos has been all but taken over by water. Floods accumulated from days of rainfall have found their way into places they ought not to be- mostly inside people’s residences. Kilometers of roads have been washed away, returning the nightmares to the affected roads. Electricity supply has been cut off in several places, resulting in unforeseen human misery- a tad worse than that with which we have become familiar.

The rusty community of Amauzu Nkpoghoro village in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was in the news last week for the wrong reason.