Since its formation in 1978, no other body of professionals in Nigeria has been as much of a thorn in the flesh of the Nigerian Government as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The carcass of its more-than-three-decades long “struggles” remains with us today. Not exempting any government, dictatorial or democratic, ASUU has mostly advocated for university autonomy, adequate funding and the general wellbeing of academics. Sadly, successive Nigerian governments have reneged on various agreements reached with the body of lecturers and their institutions.

IT has been sixteen months of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration which translates into exactly one third of a tenure of four years. Buhari therefore has only two-third of his tenure left, but it is yet to dawn on the administration and its supporters that the focus should be on what the government has done over this time, not on what the Jonathan administration did or failed to do.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the issue about the Chibok girls is a test of humanity to all Nigerians and not a debate between President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress party (APC) on one hand and ex-President Jonathan and the opposition PDP on the other.

For so long, successive Nigerian governments have made tons upon tons ofpromisesof how they would turn around thefortunes of the nation by exploiting the opportunities that lie untapped in the non-oil sectors of the economy. But after many attempts (if any at all), they often endedin mere huffs and puffs and a litany of excuses of how “they tried” but did not succeed becauseit was too big a task tobe accomplished during their tenure.

WHEN the highly revered business tycoon, Aliko Dangote, suggested the sale of certain national assets as a precursor to economic resurgence, one had hoped that he was a lone wolf propagating a personal idea. Amazingly, nevertheless unsurprising, this proposal for the sale of national assets, particularly the government’s majority shares in NLNG, has received endorsements from the Senate president,