Opinion

FOUR years is not eternity. A week has gone since May 29, leaving us with 207 more weeks. It is not too proper to repeat the same mistake of time wasting that got us to where we are today.

AS President Muhammadu Buhari considers those areas his government would give prime attention, education must be among the first. That a nation’s level of development reflects the emphasis it has placed on education over the years is easily attested to by the progress that great societies have recorded through human history.

IN 1804 Haiti became independent after years of fighting the French who desperately wanted to keep the Haitians as slave. They cursed the French and forbade them from ever entering Haiti.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may not have written his inaugural speech. And no one who appreciates the enormous responsibilities a leader in his position faces would quarrel with that.

IN agricultural genetic engineering, scientists found a way to introduce different genes into plants in order to enhance specific desired characteristics.

Sir: During the administration of the former President Goodluck Jonathan, there were many instances where he often used the podium of the church and of religion to make reckless and unguarded statements about the Nigerian state and its administration.

Sir: The title of this piece was the title of Karl Maier’s book, an American journalist, written in 2000 about the chronicles of a nation (Nigeria) on the verge of collapse that has survived series of misfortunes ranging from coups, civil war, religious crisis, human right abuses, to our political history and democratic freedom.

GIVE all the glory to our Lord Jesus Christ for answering our prayers and keeping our country together in spite of the legion of prophets of doom who predicted victories for those from whom they had collected money, as well as endless unrests for Nigerians should their anointed candidates lose.

AFTER what appeared an endless wait between March 28 and May 29, when Muhammadu Buhari was eventually inaugurated as president and commander-in-chief, citizens who had been on overdrive once the election had been lost and won, in the expectation that the moment the new government is signed on, sudden bliss would drop like dews from heaven have had to contend with a first week of near inertia.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari struck the right chord with Nigerians during his inauguration when he identified poor electricity supply to the citizens as one of the fundamental obstacles to the development of the nation.