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.

Otun Olubadan Oba Sen. Adewolu Rashidi Ladoja is the next in line to be crowned the new Olubadan of Ibadan land after the demise of former Olubadan Kabiyesi Oba Owolabi Olukulehin.

Olakulehin died early on Monday morning, a day after celebrating his ninetieth birthday. And was planning his one year on the throne for Saturday before the news of his demise.

Eighty-year-old former Oyo state governor Ladoja was born in September 1944 and is a successful businessman and politician.

The date of his installation will be announced by the governor of Oyo State. And he will be the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland.

Femi Adebayo, an award-winning film actor, began acting as a hobby, not expecting to make much money from it.

Today, he's not just an actor but also a film producer. His father, Adebayo Salami, a renowned actor himself, wanted him to be a lawyer, and he went to law school and practiced as a lawyer.

But according to him, the producer of Jagunjagun and Seven Doors found satisfaction in what he's doing as a hobby rather than his job as a practicing lawyer.

Until it got to a stage he could no longer practice professionally as a lawyer, and he went into full-time acting.

Adebayo has acted and produced many award-winning movies. And he's smiling at the banks with every production.

Syd started as a student at the University of Benin and was doing it for the fun of it and was not particularly desiring to make money from it, but now has generated over a million followers.  And he has been inspired by a lot of other content creators like brother Shaggy and Tunde Ednut, to mention a few.

A notable challenge is getting the right cast for a particular character, which can sometimes be difficult