ON Monday this week, DAILY TRUST led with quotations from a Post Insurgency Recovery and Peace Building Assessment Report, presented by the Borno State Government to the World Bank, based on the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno, in the last seven years. It was a frightening report, which showed that Borno State lost 20,000 citizens and suffered property damaged worth $5.9billion (N1.9Trillion in today’s parallel market exchange rate).

FIRE could be man’s best friend or his worst enemy – depending on how he uses or misuses it. This land of obvious contradictions has been caught severally on the wrong side of the use of fire – burning what should be conserved and conserving what should be burnt!

It is somewhat amusing that public commentators in Nigeria find a man like Donald Trump horrifying, while we in our country have consistently voted for and empowered men like Donald Trump in both business and politics. “The Donald”, with his racist, fascist rants about Muslims and foreigners,is the same bigoted, narcissist one finds in positions of authority across Nigeria.

NOW, the debate over the years is that because the man is different from the woman then one has to be greater/ better or of more relevance than the other. But in the real sense, different and unequal are not interchangeable concepts or words.

OUR fathers from the depth of their wisdom say that if you grind pepper with a mortar or pound it with a mortar it would never lose its taste. It is from the same fountain they came up with the truism that if you throw a machete in the air 100 times, it would always hit the earth on its flat side.