A year ago, Muhammadu Buhari was Nigeria’s Rorschach test, upon whom Nigerians could project their disparate yearnings, following widespread disenchantment with the administration of Goodluck Jonathan.
To govern, however, is to choose, and the choices the leader of this diverse entity called Nigeria, makes in a 12-month period, must reveal his personality.
Like any new leader, especially one dogged by security threats and plummeting economic indices, President Buhari wishes he could have had it less tough.
Mr. Buhari stated earlier this year that he wished he hadn’t been elected president at a time Nigeria is grappling with acute insecurity and low crude oil prices at the international markets.
“But I say why me? Why is it that it is when they have spent all the money, when they made the country insecure that I returned?” Mr. Buhari lamented in a February 5 interview with Al-Jazeera. “Why didn’t I come when the treasury was full? Oil price was over $140 per barrel and when I came, it slipped down to $30. Why me?”
Although Mr. Buhari still frequently blames his predecessor for running the country aground, bequeathing only a “virtually empty” treasury to him, he also committed ample embarrassing gaffes in terms of policy pronouncements and his deliberate indifference to the public mood.
Less than one month after Lekan Shonde reportedly killed his wife in Egbeda area of Lagos State, another man, Friday, allegedly murdered his wife at their no 8 Araromi area of the state.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday formally received a petition asking the agency to probe ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on the alleged mismanagement of $2.1billion released to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) for arms purchase.
Femi Gbajabimila, majority leader of the house of representatives, has alleged that the level of corruption under former President Goodluck Jonathan is unprecedented in the history of the world.
Feeding off the fury of fast-food workers’ protests, cities and states have been surging to raise their minimum wages across the country. The nation’s capital is poised to pass a new $15 hourly minimum wage, on the heels of New York State and California, which just enacted the first statewide $15 hourly base wages. Since 2012, about 17 million workers nationwide have received newly enacted or pending minimum-wage hikes, to be phased in over several years.
