President Buhari would have been the best president in Nigerian history if he was never an elected one . But since his second ascension into this job, many things have happened which you would not have expected from a former military general. In my village, we have military generals and whenever they come along, you see decisiveness.
From electricity to water board, oil corporation to education regulators, there are many confusions. In short, it seems no one really understands what is happening. The Customs will give a number on fuel import. The oil corporation will produce a different one. The central bank comes with something else. And the big one: you pay for an international passport and after 7 months, your nation cannot print it for you. And that has been normalized and accepted!
Yet, I may be unfair for blaming the President. The issue here is this: where has the “old” Nigeria with a decent working system gone? Go to the New York office of the Nigerian embassy, do the biometrics at 9am and at 2pm return to pick the passport. That scene was just 9 years ago. Why did Nigeria discard that system for the current system where after 7 months, you are not sure of the passport! What is going on?
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Indeed, even the university system regulator cannot understand the figures of speech with its nonsensical circular, and was forced to withdraw its answers! Nigeria needs better #leaders.
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