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Those of us around Jibiya in Kastina State and Itakpe in Kogi State interested in seeing the completion of the construction of National Freight Office Building at Jibiya and construction/Provision of Relevant Facilities along the Railway Stations Buildings in the case of Itakpe - Ajaokuta - Warri railways stations are unhappy.
Gradually but surely, if nothing is done to stem the tide, we are inching our way to self-destruction.
Without any reason that is reasonable enough to warrant any reasonable intervention from the country’s reasonable President, members of a fading group within the APC that call themselves the New PDP (nPDP) have recently resorted to blackmailing and intimidating both the APC leadership and the Presidency that they would pull out of the APC if certain unreasonable demands of theirs were not met! And what are the unreasonable demands? One, that the APC has been marginalizing them in the party; that the party and the Presidency should address it or they will leave the party! Two, that the federal government should drop all charges of corruption and criminal allegations against Senate President Bukola Saraki and other colleagues of theirs! Senator Saraki actually became President of the Senate against the wishes of the APC.
Unprecedented excitement greeted the passage into law of the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday May 31, 2018.
According to a report by the Brookings Institution, data from the World Poverty Clock show that Nigeria now has over 87 million people living in poverty.
Less than a year from now the Nigerian general elections might have come and gone, and indeed won and lost.
Though as a career civil servant I am not a politician, the compelling motivation to write this piece was predicated on an interview I granted some newsmen during the week, in which they asked me questions regarding my principal, Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo.
The tedious spat between President Buhari and the National Assembly over a budget that took six months to process is a depressing reminder of how politically stuck the nation has been in the last three years.
Since his assumption of office in May 29, 2015, plateau state governor Simon Lalong did not mince words about his resolve to bring an end to the incessant and mindless waste of human lives and property on the Plateau.
Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano is not a man that needs introduction.
One thing became abundantly clear after the All Progressives Congress (APC) recent national convention, at which delegates exchanged blows during President Muhammadu Buhari’s (PMB) speech - If the APC still wishes to become the political party which will rescue Nigeria from its seemingly eternal malaise, it will certainly have to change itself before it can change the nation.