Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted the names of all, but one, nominees for appointment as federal ministers. 18 of the nominees have been screened and approved by the Senate, with 18 or 19 more expected to be so screened and approved...

One of the key points for me in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day Anniversary message was the call for national re-orientation among citizens. The other was his assertion that he was not against anyone and as such people should have...

It is the Day of the Girl Child So we celebrate the girl today Yet the girl is that special a child Whom we should celebrate everyday That’s how I celebrate mine I celebrate them everyday One, two, three I sired over time Utibe, Eme and Ama I...

Imagine, just imagine that the real Change happens this time. Imagine that the Senate says and acts out change in the confirmation of the president’s nominees as ministers. Imagine that they no longer practice the ‘bow and go’...

Some days like today in LagosYou get angry, exhausted and angry again Angry that you own a carAngry that you drive a carAngry that you are driven in a carBecause the traffic just won’t move So you look at the pedestrian with envyYes, that same...

Yippee! It’s World Teachers’ Day today. Oh, well not too many people may be aware of that fact. Not that they couldn’t be bothered I guess; just that the day, like many things about teaching, has not been made popular enough, at least in our climes...

Rome: March 15, 44BC
Caesar: ‘The Ides of March have come’.
Soothsayer: ‘Aye, Caesar but not; gone’
Abuja: September 30, 2015…
Citizens: ‘The end of September is here’
PMB: ‘Yes but not yet over’.

Source: Waiting for the long-awaited list

Very few people, if any, saw this long wait coming. There has been an unsettling wait for the composition of the executive council to work with President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) as ministers. It is a settled fact that the Nigerian Constitution...