The Nigerian economy is in the doldrums. Hardly anyone needs to be reminded that the prices of foodstuff and other basic necessities have literally gone through the roof. Companies and businesses are folding up in droves, and the few existing ones either owe or short-pay staff just to remain afloat.

My daily schedule revolves round that of the President. When he is very busy, I am also very busy. When his schedule is light, mine is also light. But you know that more often than not, a President is very busy. As long as he has events that need to be covered and disseminated to the public, I am at my duty post. When he holds political meetings, some lasting far into the night, I am also there.

IT was in 1885 that Otto von Bismarck , the first Chancellor of Germany called a conference of the heads of all European nations in a bid to amicably share the African continent and avoid fighting each other over land in a foreign and very environmentally hostile territory. So they sat at a round table in Berlin and placed the map of Africa on the table and started drawing lines, sometimes across it, sometimes dividing towns into different countries.

THE great musician, Fela Ransome Kuti in his song, “Buy Africa” sang thus: “Africa man no go do him own thing, he no go buy him own thing. “ How true his lyrics in the context of the Nigerian football.

On March 19, 2014, the then opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, criticized the unemployment situation under then President Jonathan and accused him of not doing anything concrete to help Nigerian youths get employed.