Recently, Aliyu Audu, a former senior special assistant to the President on public affairs, granted an interview after he resigned his appointment. The card-carrying member of the APC claimed he resigned with the intention to campaign against the president and make sure President Tinubu is not returned to the position of the president in 2027.

The President's offense is that the President is not promoting his opponents, the PDP. He sees this as not being democratic and a plan to turn Nigeria into a one-party country.

And does he have anyone in mind he wants to support for 2027? Not yet.  He has a platform, and it is called the APC Rebirth Group. Now this whole idea is odd.

Here's someone who has a position in the presidency where he can contribute his quota to the development of the nation, but he feels it is not proper because he would be supporting a dictator. You can not help but feel there's more than meets the eye in this matter.

In another part of the interview, he had with Seun on Arise TV, he reminisced about how some of his friends had to sell their houses, their cars, and their properties and move abroad only to go there to do menial jobs for a living.

But the question here is what wisdom is in that. You have a job, properties, but you sold all and went abroad to settle for an undignified life overseas.

Yes, the young people of Nigeria want a better life and a better Nigeria, but they seem to be losing it by the decisions they manage to make.  Why should a member of the APC be fighting the President, who is from his party, because the president is a friend of someone 'destabilizing' the opposition party?

When you respect the opposition party, but the opposition party does not respect itself, what can you do?

The opposition behaves like a football team desiring to play the ball into their net, and the President is guilty of not helping the opposition to defend their party.

When everyone can see that all the PDP needs is for Atiku to step down from his ambition to contest for president, but Aliyu seems to believe it should be the other way round. Tinubu should step down for the PDP crisis to be over.

And does he see this strategy as an own goal? And that own goals can only count for the opponent.

So the opposition party's destabilization is an own goal for the APC.

Why does Aliyu want Tinubu to collect a red card for his opponent's own goal?  Or is Aliyu a chameleon within APC ranks and is working from within for the opposition? Surely the dice aren't rolling in Aliyu's favour. And that's the reason for his decision. If you desire to correct what is wrong, certainly it isn't by bringing the roof down.

The colonial masters left Nigeria in the hands of one of the two major power blocs in Nigeria which is the northern Fulani caucus and their allies. And today, their political platform is the PDP.

Power seems to have shifted to the Southern Yoruba power bloc and its allies, who are the historical opponents of the Northern Fulani power bloc in Nigeria. So there is a need for the Northern elements to gather together to wrestle back power from the Southern Yoruba bloc.

Not many people will believe this theory of traditional power blocs, but nothing can be closer to the truth.

Why is it that Atiku cannot but contest in the 2027 elections? And why is it difficult for El Rufai to support Peter Obi? Heirs hardly give up the throne for others.

Tinubu is at risk of losing the support of certain northern elements in 2027 because he's not pursuing the Northern Fulani agenda like Obasanjo and Jonathan did. But he is seen as pursuing the southern political agenda of the south-west.   It is on this basis that Akiti Audu is fighting him. Of course, like a chameleon, he's wearing a different but unconvincing garb; still, his identity must be discerned.

Nigeria as a nation has been running away from the existence of the old power blocs for a long while, and we were pretending that the old power blocs exist only during the early postcolonial period. But what we have today is clear evidence of this fact.

Truly we're injecting different ideas into our different political attitudes to win more support, but the basic operating principles of the two blocs are very apparent in their operations.  Acceptance of new ideas may eventually make the two blocs meet in principles and ideals in the future, but for now and because they have always existed as opposing forces. People will have to take their stand.

If anyone claims he has another agenda for Nigeria outside of his two, he needs to articulate it, and if, for now, he doesn't want to align with any of the two power blocs, he may be playing the spoiler.

The Northern Fulani coalition promotes personality above structural development and symbolises the conservative spirit.  On the other hand, the Southern Yoruba alliance promotes structural development and so can be seen as the progressives, and their major platform is the APC 

 Buhari was President from 2015 to 2023, before President Tinubu succeeded him. His tenure endured the obnoxious petroleum subsidies and the chaos of End SARS when many young people, it was believed, lost their lives over peaceful protests that turned violent. 

The late President was buried in his hometown of Daura, where many dignitaries were present to pay their last respects, among them the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and many others. 

Buhari's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, was also present at the burial. President Tinubu has named the University of Maiduguri after the former military head of state.

The Borno State Federal University will now be known as Muhammadu Buhari University, Maiduguri. 

Immediately after he came to power, Buhari was determined to bring his long-time vision for children in Nigeria to manifestation.   He had long believed that if anybody was going to make young children desire to come to school, provisions to provide food for them must be made, particularly in the north, where young children run the risk of becoming street beggars because of the endemic poverty in the land, of which children were the major victims.

His desire to attract children back to school gave birth to the National home-grown school feeding program, and he didn't mind the amount of money that was wasted on the program.

The two-time head of state knew the risk he took, but he didn't mind the consequences that the program might bring to his integrity, as many of the program's facilitators fed fat on the program to the point that the next President didn't want to touch the program with a long pole. What is the desired result of the laudable program? Bring as many children to public schools as possible.

The first challenge the program faced was a lack of data for the school children. At least the number of pupils should be made known for each state, then the endemic challenge of corruption reared its ugly head.

The number of pupils to be catered for was grossly misappropriated then the unavailability of funds. Mohamed Buhari pushed on all the same until the end of his tenure. Today, one of the reasons the Tinubu government is being accused of lacking a human face is the abandonment of the school feeding program.

The position of the President is a thankless one in Nigeria since the number of out-of-school children has greatly increased when the government stopped the program. Over seventy-seven thousand cooks will be rendered jobless until the government decides to go back to the program. This program was the only genuine attempt to seriously keep primary school students off the streets because many come to school on an empty stomach. 

The Police, Medical Doctors, Teachers, and the Military should earn the highest salaries in a nation like Nigeria.

This is because they undertake services that ordinary people cannot undertake.  They need special training to do their jobs very well and the conditions of their service should not be a distraction.

So that the best brains can be attracted to do this job, the best conditions of service should be reserved for them. 

President Buhari died today at a London hospital. His death was announced by his family. Burial arrangements will be announced later.

The recent performance of the top teams in Europe is leading football pundits to rank the top five teams in Europe. 

Particularly, teams that have played the Champions League and the Club World Cup. Some of which have shown great improvements in recent outings. Here are the rankings from the least. 
5  Arsenal. 

Arsenal has been the Premier League's runner-up for three consecutive seasons and was eliminated in the semifinals of the Champions League, and it is ranked as the fifth-best team in Europe. 

4. Bayern Munich.

Bayern is ranked fourth in Europe having won the Bundesliga and the DFB Pokal. Then they reached the Quarter finals on the champions league and the Cups World Cup.

3. Liverpool.

Liverpool is ranked third in the new European Club rankings after it won the Premier League and reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the 2024/25 season.

2. Barcelona.

Barcelona is ranked second. Though it didn't play in the Champions League World Cup but it beat former champions league title holders Teal Madrid to win the La liga and to reach the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League.

1. PSG.

PSG has won all domestic competitions in the past season and also is the Champions League tittle holder. The also beat the likes of Bayern and Real Madrid to reach the final of Clubs World Cup. They have been adjudged as the best club side in Europe presently. 

When the pretty actress Iyabo Ojo recently issued a press release to alert the public that someone was out to do her harm, and if such an incident were to occur, the Nigerian public should hold Liizzy Anjorin responsible.

This gave the impression that someone finally got Ojo scared. The otherwise very confrontational actress decided to melt a little and pretended to be afraid and send a warning after Lizzy over what may happen over their beefing.

The whole affair started, according to reports, over some business issues that they couldn't get resolved. 

The public showdown between the two had been going on for a while. With accusations and counteraccusations, and they had to involve the law enforcement agency at a particular point in time, it still doesn't seem to be going down.

Well-meaning Nigerians may have to intervene for peace to reign.

The greatest challenge for the electricity sector in Nigeria is that consumers don't want to pay for the services they like to enjoy. And government cannot afford to subsidize because government workers seize the opportunity to misappropriate funds. And that was leading to insolvency.

The government, therefore, wants to privatize the sector. The process of privatization has started and has reached an advanced stage, but only a few electricity companies are making a profit.

Only recently, the IBEDC calmed down it was only able to collect about 48% of the revenue it could generate.

There is no encouragement to private entrepreneurs who want to invest in the sector.

Another problem is that the sector is under a few companies, and until recently, when the government was trying to change this, the whole electricity sector was under one company, and only the federal government can handle electricity.

Therefore unsavory monopoly was created that hindered so much that sector and stalled its development.

For example, the IBEDC, marketing electricity in the southwest, is in charge of a section that should be under like twenty companies if we're going to get anything called efficiency.

IBEDC alone cannot manage the supply of electricity to the vast area that has been put under its supervision; we are talking about eight states.

We have to look into a situation where a marketing company is in charge of just a local government or two, and at most three local governments.

As long as IBEDC is under one management, it will never successfully supply adequate electricity to the part of the country, and the same situation goes for the other marketing companies around the nation.

Electricity has to be managed from transformer to transformer.

Every house using the same transformer should form a marketing unit and should be so managed or else one part will have to wait for the other part as it is happening now because part of the problem now is human, ie human errors and corruption, and inadequate personnel which IBEDC must surmount before we can have stable and proper electricity supply.

And this goes for all marketing companies in the nation. The reason is that electricity has to be supplied at the same time to every Nigerian, and the challenges are the same for every area. That's why for IBEDC to supply electricity to one area, another area must wait until they have adequate personnel and better operating systems. 

That's the highest level of inefficiency. Why should somebody who has money to pay have to wait until light is supplied to him when it is not for free. The Federal Government has done enough to break that monopoly, and if necessary,y they should do more.

With the new electricity bill that has been signed into law, state governments and local governments must regulate electricity supply in their areas to satisfy paying consumers.

The advantage of transformer by transformer marketing is that if we have about a thousand transformers in Akinyele LG and we must generate one billion naira revenue per month all we need to do is to get a marketer to mobilize the people under that transformer to contribute the amount allocated to each transformer and when there's a problem the consumers know who to call upon.

Right now, the zonal marketing offices of IBEDC are grossly inadequate to cater to the number of consumers under them, and it is the same thing with other marketing companies.   The managers hang around lazily in their offices, and they don't have the knowledge of what is going on in the markets. 

It was Chelsea that went through to the finals of the club World Cup with the two Joao Pedro goals in both half's prove the deciding factor in the semifinal clash between Chelsea and Fluminese on Tuesday night.

It was Pedro's very first game and the very first time he would score after his transfer from Brighton. Fluminese had no answer to his two volleys and they left their fans stunned leaving the stadium very disappointed.

The blues will now meet the winner of the second semifinal between Real Madrid and PSG on Wednesday.