It's time to impeach Buhari and impeach him, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

President Muhammadu Buhari

The only option left in democratic politics is for the National Assembly to remove him through the impeachment process. It is their democratic duty under the constitution. The cost of keeping Buhari in power is the destruction of all that is left of Nigeria. No one, surely not Buhari, is worth the price of the country. Now is the time for the National Assembly to fulfill this duty and remove Muhammadu Buhari as President of Nigeria.

Last week, education came to a standstill in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria. It started with Education Minister Adamu Adamu's order on July 25 closing the six federal government colleges (better known as unity schools) in the FCT, while students were at the midway through their end-of-year exams. The reason for the order, according to the minister, was "a security breach in the villages of Sheda and Lambata, suburbs of Kwali Regional Council which also threatened FGC Kwali". He did not provide any details on the nature or extent of the "security breach".

In a separate announcement released the same day, the FCT Education Secretariat summarily informed "parents and guardians that the 2021/2022 school calendar for FCT schools will end on Wednesday, July 27, 2022" . They hardly tried to justify this measure. The assumption that the reason for the closure of all FCT schools was the same reason given by the Minister of Education when he closed the unit schools does not necessarily explain the two days of grace. additional grants granted by the FCT administration to all other FCT schools.

During the same week, terrorists also forced Veritas University, a higher education institution established by the Catholic Church in the FCT, to close indefinitely.

On the same day the minister closed the FCT unit schools, by the way, it emerged that terrorists had killed an officer and two men from the elite Nigerian Army Guards Brigade, who were "ambushed after they visited the Nigeria Law School in Bwari following a distress (sic) call from the school authorities. According to the Daily Trust, "the management of the reportedly alerted that terrorists had left a letter indicating an imminent attack on the school".

These are not the only soldiers killed in the FCT during the week. The day after the FCT administration closed all schools in the federal capital on July 28, armed terrorists reportedly attacked another military unit near Zuma Rock, on the FCT-Niger State border. , killing at least two people sold...