Why didn’t students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State – who were rustled, literally, like cows by terrorists on Friday, December 11 – get clearance from the military before going to school that fateful day? That was the question I waited to hear from Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Assistant on Media and Publicity, immediately the 333 lads were abducted from their dormitory and herded into one of the ungoverned spaces that dot all the nooks and crannies of this country where non-state actors hold sway. Penultimate week when Boko Haram terrorists murdered rice farmers in Kwashabe village…

On Thursday, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, died at 85. I condole with his family. He was a well-educated lawyer who attracted the attention of General Muhammadu Buhari in 2003 when he delivered a favourable minority judgment in the presidential candidate’s election appeal. When Buhari finally took office in 2015, the debt to Nsofor was one he was determined to pay, but by the time he appointed him as US ambassador in 2017, Nsofor was so old he could barely make it to the biggest dance on the diplomatic circuit. It was an appointment which suggested…