But, since these violent communal conflicts between farmers and nomads, occur entirely in the rural areas, the governments do not seem to feel threatened by them and accord them low priority

Ortom has stood firm at the descent of barbarism in our land and he should be commended for standing as a man in a season where killers have taken over the land

ONE of the reasons Nigeria has never developed as well as her great potentials will suggest is that we live on collectively accepted lies. Among the most enduring is the idea that this country has four refineries. We have a Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian national Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which we claim operates four refineries with combined refining capacity of 445,000 barrels per day. The refineries meanwhile were established from 1965 to 1980.

Thankfully, fuel stations have gradually reopened for ‘normal’ business, while the severe social agony and angst instigated by the recent acute scarcity, has significantly eased with the reported improvement in NNPC’s fuel stock.

I live to see the day when all the three zones of the South will stand together, not necessarily across a drawn battle line against the North but as equals in negotiating the terms of our national unity and cohabitation