Barely one week after conducting a controversial presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for the 5th United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LCDs) in Doha, the capital city of Qatar on Saturday. The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said the President’s visit was …

Our problem in this country is hysterical blindness. Selective amnesia. The profound inability to see self and absolve deeply our pathetic situation. We see other people’s joy as our joy. Rather than ask: how about our joy? Who did we offend to find ourselves in the rot we are. We are celebrating Qatar. We are marvelling at a country that …