The dismal state of the sector is obvious in the disjointed nature of the various transport modes. There is little connectedness and synergy among the various modes of transport as obtained in the developed world.

RAMADAN is here again, the blessed month in which Allah showers His mercy and blessings upon His servants. In the month, the Holy Quran was revealed and there is a night of power, better than a thousand months. The gates of heaven are opened and the gates of hellfire are shut, the devils are chained and the believers’ sins are forgiven.

ON Friday 18th 2018, the Nigerian Army made public the findings of the panel it set up to investigate allegations of partiality levelled against it by a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt-Gen Theophilus Danjuma and some groups in its ongoing operations to curb killings by armed herdsmen and other bandits in the Middle Belt and other parts of the country.

We caution, however, that no one should politicise the tragedy wrought  by the armed herdsmen attacks on innocent citizens. It is true that the Federal Government sat on its palms for long while these herdsmen attacked and set fire to communities, destroyed farms and food barns, killed hundreds of people without mercy and sent thousands from their homes into refugee camps.

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has a heavy moral burden in ensuring that Miss Sharibu is returned to her family safe and sound and as quickly as possible. In the first place, it was unconscionable that the Dapchi girls’ abduction should have taken place even while the sad chapter on the Chibok schoolgirls had yet to be closed.