We have the president Tinubu; Do we have a country? B …

Do we have a country? It may seem trivial, but the answers to the question can be the key to who we are and where we are. Are there any answers?

We have a president. Isn’t it very important? Isn’t that importance why we start dedicating all resources to the elections? By 2024, politics professionals were already discussing 2027, 2031 and 2035 is entering the radar. We are all on politics.

Our national focus is on the next elections. National development plans, if we are going to have, are distorted and twisted with projects diligently pushed to nothing.

Think about it. Give a little time.

What makes us a people? If we are no longer “a nation linked by freedom, peace and unity”, what are we?

Do fairness, justice, equity still count in the way Nigeria deals with Nigerians?

Why are the Nigerians becoming increasingly “indigenous” than their state of origin than the “citizens” of Nigeria?

Who are citizens of Nigeria? Are there any benefits, responsibilities and obligations connected to being Nigerians? Are resources distributed in line with us Nigerians?

How does Nigeria work for some Nigerians or all Nigerians?

Who cares about the Nigerians and the future of our nation? Why should they worry about it?

Nigeria is retiring with unprecedented speeds. The leadership is detached, casual, inattentive, indifferent, cold, lethargic, apathetic – except when it boasts of its invisible results summarized in its pathetic understanding of the leadership.

We suffered. What we are going through is different. The president is proud to be the supplier of that difference that is imbued with indifference.

Our people are affected by anger, hunger, diseases, partitions, insecurity and consequences of the arrogant waste of resources that we borrow. The consequent poverty does not discriminate between regions and religions.

The Nigerians have become so divided that we dwell to discuss irrelevant – that Nollywood started, who pronounces the words better, who cooks better, who will never be president, who stole more. We are all like characters in the satirical novel by Nkem Nwankwo of 1975, My Mercedes is bigger than yours, which explores corruption, materialism and social issues as themes.

We threw away our country in 2015. We fell to those who see us less than nothing. We were pushed into a weakness close to leaders playing with life.

The Nigerians do not need a peripatetic president who, even when at home, he behaves worse than Nero, the famous Roman emperor who had more concerns about his violin of a Rome on fire.

Our first duty is to recover our country on fire. The anger is underwolished.

Finally…

Prime Minister Kp Sharma Oli del Nepal on Sunday 6 September 2025 derives youth demonstrators, on their expected agitation in the capital, Kathmandu, against corruption and nepotism. Less than 48 hours later, Oli had become a former Prime Minister, parts of Kathmandu, including the Parliament building, and the government offices had been burned. Government officials resigned, on the run from the country, some seriously brutalized. The Nepalis expressed their anger for the difficulties, unemployment, the lifestyle of the families of portions and former government officials and a ban on social platforms who have not registered and underwent control of the government of their content. The ban on social media has been revoked. Hundreds of people were injured in protests and at least 31 people died. Any lessons for Nigerian leaders? Nobody. We had protested #endsar. The brutality of the police who have been at the center of the #endsar protests is worse, far today, four years ago.

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo of the State of Anambra hit his offer of re -election in low points. He said nothing about the environmental control agents of his government whose coarse raw and extreme cruelty caused deaths last week in Onitsha last week. Growing insecurity in Anambra is less important by soludo than “fake” certificates. Soludo should report the question to the independent national electoral commission and present a cause. Liesting under oath is a criminal crime. In the elections of the Governor of Bayelsa in 2019, the All Progressives congress won the elections, but the Supreme Court spoke in favor of the candidate of the Democratic Party of people because the candidate for the governor APC had inconsistencies in his certificates.

The floods are devastating many parts of the country. There may be more. The five buffer dams proposed to manage the Benue and Niger rivers that overflow when excess water is released from the Ladgo di Cameroon dam, remain offered 43 years after the completion of the Ladgo dam.

Millions of children outside school are still useful statistics for the conference documents and do not disturb governments or the care or concern for the present or the future. The 18.3 meters outside the school of Nigeria are the highest in the world. If those children of 18.3 million had their country, it would be the most populous 26th of the 54 African countries in front of the Zimbabwe, Tunisia and Rwanda, among others.

Dr. Nasir Idris, governor of the state of Kebbi, suspended the state commissioner for health Yunusa Isma’il, according to a declaration by the secretary of the state government, Alhaji Yakubu Bala Tafida. “The executive governor commissioned the health commissioner for the health of justifying the reason why no further penalties should be applied, having ignored the mandate to the entrusted to him,” added the declaration.
Hassan Mai-Waya Kangiwa, a journalist, was arrested after publishing a video showing bad conditions at Kangiwa General Hospital. The harmful filming that were widely widespread on social media represented patients who lay on naked metal beds without mattresses. The indignation of the public dripped through the comments.

“In this hospital, there are many wrong and very frustrating things. They claim to provide health services, yet reality tells a different story. Imagine an elderly man lying on a sick bed without mattress, no sheets and no cushions – only the naked iron frame. He is deeply shocking and unacceptable,” said a narrator of the video.

The President of the Chamber of Representatives Alhaji Tajudeen Idris launched the alarm at the opening of the 11th Committee for public finances of West Africa, Waapac, conference in Abuja, on the loan of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. “The main loan proposals should be subject to public hearings and simplified debt reports must be made available to the public,” said Nigeria foreign debts that have reached 54 % of GDP. The recommended threshold is 35-40 percent of GDP. Alhaji Idris’ hypocrisy is pitiful. As a speaker of the house, did he not know of loans?

The Department of State Services, DSS, is delighted in weightless issues while the bandits and terrorists maintain the land unsafe. Why should DSS be the complaint against Oomoyel Sowore in a question between him and the president? Is this more important for DSS that the lawyer general of the Federation? DSS is also claiming credit for negotiations that have concluded a strike in the oil sector. DSS is the new Federal Ministry of Labor. The most important advice to follow is perhaps the president’s happiness. He is too busy working and on vacation to worry about minor problems.

The countdown to the return of the president should start. With discounts for the day of arrival and departure, a holiday and weekend, the president could return on September 19th; A weekend follows. Days later, the president turned to the United Nations in New York. Shouldn’t he just do alage from Paris to New York instead of Paris-ABUJA-NEW York?

Those against Mrs. Remi Tinubu, the president’s wife, who raises funds for the completion of the headquarters of the National Library abandoned in Abuja, should go to the arms. The project, a correct reflection of our poor consideration for knowledge, was in the same phase of incompleteness for more than 20 years. The move to complete the library should be welcome even if it is provided by the arrangement that the structure will take its name from the First Lady like this – its excellence, First Lady of Nigeria, very distinguished Triple sen Oltemi Tinubu (with) National Library of Nigeria.

● Isiguzo is an important commentator on minor issues.

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