As Buhari conducts Tinubu round the Villa… By Festus Adedayo

Forget their pretensions and volte-faces, when outgoing Nigerian public officials wake up tomorrow, May 29, they will wake up into emptiness. That void cannot be filled by the wealth they acquired in office. Nor can it be impeached by Muhammadu Buhari’s reported haste to flee Aso Villa tomorrow. At the launch of a book on his administration at the presidential villa on Friday, the outgoing president had said: “I assure you, I have been counting the days; I am looking forward to Monday very desperately. I will use the weekend…

Well, like everything else, this too shall pass, by Hassan Gimba

“The measurement of a man is what he does with power.” – Plato   Today marks the end of the two-term tenure of a man who came with tremendous goodwill, the kind never before witnessed in Nigeria’s chequered political history. One can still remember some young Nigerians trekking from one end of Nigeria to another in high hopes of the new president. However, unlike Caesar, it is doubtful if he can thump his chest and declare “Veni, vidi, vici”—I came; I saw; I conquered.       General Muhammadu Buhari…

Reminiscing The Good Old Days of Elementary/Basic Education in Nigeria, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

Inspite the clamour, efforts and enabling environment created by the handlers of the country’s basic education, the Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC, some of the 36 states governors including the Federal Capital Territory had blatantly refused to access billions of funds set aside to improve not only basic education, but infrastructure, manpower development, capacity building and instructional materials in the last eight years. The Governors whose only commitment to assessing the billions in the reserve of UBEC was only counterpart funding deviated from the fund owing to penchants of most…

FAREWELL SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters and friends of Nigeria. 2. I address you today, in my last assignment as a democratically elected President of our great and well-endowed nation, with a deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of appreciation to the Nigerian people and a modest sense of fulfilment. 3. Today we mark and celebrate another peaceful transition of power from one elected government to another in our steady march to improve and sustain Nigeria’s democracy. 4. This year we witnessed the most keenly contested Presidential Elections…