Abdulrazaq Magaji

Interesting news out of Tehran! The other day Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani called for unity within the Muslim community with the ultimate aim of laundering the negative image Muslims have created for their religion through needless bickering.

Now that moderate and responsible leaders of thought in Igboland have cautioned against the madness over Biafra, it is perhaps apt for ‘outsiders’ to say something.

For the second time in a little over thirty years, General Muhammadu Buhari is heading another ‘corrective’ government. When he first came in as military head of state on New Year’s Eve 1984, it was to clear the mess left behind by politicians of the Second Republic.

Long before it became a continental problem, Nigeria’s incoming president, General Muhammadu Buhari, foresaw the possibility of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians who ‘check out’ to seek better life.

At critical times when nations found themselves at crossroads, it has almost always been a General that stepped forward to check a certain slide into anarchy. Nigeria is at a crossroads and gradually being run aground by an inept and clueless government at the centre.

Nigerians are getting to know why Rivers State has become a killing field. The last time, it was when the campaign train of the opposition All Progressives’ Congress, APC, landed in the bustling town of Okrika only to be confronted by hoodlums.

After months of turning the blind eye to the criminality in the northeast, Nigeria’s embattled president, Goodluck Jonathan, confessed last week that his government all along took Boko Haram for granted!

Strange and interesting times are here! A crucial decision to postpone national elections was taken and the President and Commander In Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces has just confessed that he was taking a nap!

At the rate things are going, there should be scant surprise in the event of PDP leaders issuing a disclaimer in respect of their presidential candidate.

A special edition of Charlie Hebdo is on sale. Emboldened by the hypocritical speeches that characterised last Sunday’s international solidarity rally in Paris, editors of the rag-sheet claimed three million copies would be on sale for the next one week.