Many boisterous and healthy debates have broken out on social media platforms and, indeed, other fora on the recently adjusted price of petrol. But quite unexpectedly, some of the arguments are grounded in myths. Here are a few and my attempt to burst them.

WE live in a highly insecure world. However, the greatest source of global insecurity is not ISIS, Trumpism or the nuclear arms race; it is hunger, powered by the perhaps, the most devastating but virtually unreported drought in living memory. As this reality dawned on me, I thought about children going to bed hungry; how do they sleep? Adolescents going to school on empty stomachs; what can they learn? What do you tell a hungry populace; how can they listen?

Last week, I wrote about meeting President Muhammadu Buhari in London and hearing him make a speech (and answer questions from the audience) when he came to London to attend anti-corruption conferences that were hosted by Patricia Scotland, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The flight to Maiduguri, last week Tuesday evening, had been delayed for more than three hours. And at a point, not a few passengers had become apprehensive that it might be cancelled. Eventually though, we took off and one hour and ten minutes or so later, we landed.

The activities of the new Boko Haram – the wave of barbarous hordes in the form of herdsmen – have reached a crescendo and all people of goodwill must feel perturbed by the ugly development.