Nigeria’s ailing president was glaringly absent on Monday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word on the head of state’s health three weeks after he went on indefinite medical leave.

PROMINENT personalities of the South-South geo-political zone were at odds, weekend, in their assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s first two years in office, with some commending his anti-corruption fight, while others knocked him for epitomizing bad governance.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has called on Nigerians to offer special prayers for the healing power of God to visit President Muhammadu Buhari and restore his health to enable him continue to work for the unity and good governance of the country.

AFTER two years in the saddle, the report card of the Buhari Administration on the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector indicates that the government has made giant strides, especially in the recent past, on policies to move the sector forward.

THE banking industry recorded sluggish growth within the first two years of the President Buhari administration. Even that marginal growth was mired by phenomenal increase in non-performing loans, NPLs, occasioned by combination of naira depreciation, high inflation and downturn in economic activities.

Some political analysts in Kaduna on Sunday hailed President Muhammadu for his handling of corruption and insecurity issues since coming to power tow years ago.

In the photo, two of the claimed IPOB members who donated the cow are seen standing with Nnamdi Kanu while another picture shows them standing beside the said cow.

Following the May 30th declaration by Biafra agitators as sit-at-home Day in commemoration of the Biafra Independence Day, some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) claimed to be based in Malaysia but travelled home for the planned Biafra Day have allegedly donated a live cow allegedly named “Buhari” to their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to be killed on Biafra Day.

Some residents of Hadejia in Jigawa have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for tackling insurgency and other security challenges in the country.

It certainly is dull, possibly insane to believe all this, about Nigerian conspirators and British shenanigans, but conspiracy theories are also exciting because they are like thriller novels and action movies

WHETHER President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-year-old leadership of Nigeria has been worthwhile or not, can be easily understood from the actions and in actions that characterised the period.

No Nigerian leader, living or dead, has affected the Nigerian nation in the way President Muhammadu Buhari has; let fools contend. Of course, this would generate an open, heated argument – and there already is – about the real and imagined essence of the affectation of Buhari on the political, economic, religious and even social spheres.

Meanwhile, Mr Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been leading the chorus of government officials singing that the economy will get out of recession in June this year. It’s an old trick often played by managers of companies having to render financial reports to the public. When the current period under review is not favourable you point to a rosy future to divert attention from the failure now.

AS the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Fedral Government marks its second anniversay in office, Nigerians have, again, begun to ask questions about the administration’s performance in office especially regarding the social welfare intervention programme of President Muhammadu Buhari for which N500 billion was allocated in the 2016 budget.

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the release of N54 billion to settle all inherited and current liabilities to Federal Government retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme.