The Most Rev. Justin Welby, Thursday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at Abuja House, London. Buhari according to a statement signed by the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina stated the president is expected back tomorrow, Friday, and that he expressed appreciation to Nigerians who had prayed fervently for him. Read more here

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return to the country tomorrow,Friday the Presidency said on Thursday.

Prof. Grace Akinola, the acting Dean, Student Affairs (DSA), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, says only one group is recognised as Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN)‎ on the campus.

Tony Esijolomi Afejuku, activist, academic and public commentator, is a professor of English Literature who also was renown as a former leader of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Benin, Benin City. Prof. Ajejuku in this interview spoke on several national issues including expectations from the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, among other burning national issues. Excerpts:

IF there is one area in which the Buhari administration has consistently showed itself up as politically unsophisticated and fallen short of democratic values, it is in its handling of issues bordering on human rights. The administration has generally demonstrated a high level of unresponsiveness and disinterest in matters concerning individuals, groups and sections of the country it does not agree with.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees [BOT], Sen. Walid Jubril, says the party leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, is reputed as one of the strongest political loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari having partnered with him over the years from the Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Following his law education at the then University of Ife, where he obtained a degree in law in 1974, he in 1979, became the youngest member of the Oyo State House of Assembly at the advent of the Second Republic and in 1983 became the Attorney General of the State and Commissioner for Justice until the advent of the Buhari junta in December 1983. He also held the same position as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice during the Rasheed Ladoja administration. In this interview held in Abuja, the Iseyin, Oyo State-born minister spoke on some national issues.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has summoned its 23 state governors for a crucial meeting today to discuss the state of the nation as well as its forthcoming non-elective national convention slated for April 29.

AT the risk of being termed a “mischief maker”, I think it is very crucial to draw parallels between President Muhammadu Buhari and Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s handling of the nation’s top executive job, at least, to show the importance of mindsets, style and personal dispositions in leadership.

INFORMATION Minister Lai Mohammed, was the one who said that President Buhari was ‘hale and hearty’ notwithstanding Mr. President himself had said that he was in London to spend some part of his leave to attend to his health. And the questions arose: ‘what does it mean to be ‘hale and hearty’? Who is supposed to be ‘hale and hearty’? Is a person ‘hale and hearty’ merely because he is not bed ridden on account of ill-health, or is a person ‘hale and hearty’ only because he is able to be ‘up and about’ in spite of ill-health? Maybe.