The Strait of Hormuz must stay open
The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, and its uninterrupted flow is essential to global stability. Every day, approximately 21 million barrels of crude oil-roughly 21 per cent of global petroleum consumption-pass through this narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. To nickname it a “special international waterway” and treat it as […]
Herdsmen attacks as trigger to famine
The threat of massive famine in 2018 and 2019 is becoming a reality to those close to Nigeria’s farmlands. In the past, food shortages had occurred on account of unfavourable weather or pest infestation. Low rainfall or excessive flooding as well as locust attacks had in the past also resulted in low food productivity.
Need to mop up small, light weapons
While we acknowledge that this indiscriminate ownership of arms has a direct link with the spillover of the Libyan crisis, it is pertinent to situate it in the failure of the nation’s security agencies to arrest the influx.
Stop these child voters now
FOLLOWING on the heels of the recently concluded local government elections in Kano State, videos and photos of children, some of them as young as seven queueing in long lines to vote have sparked outrage in the social media. Nigerian laws prescribe that a person must be 18 or above to be eligible to vote
Keeping Nigerians away from jails abroad
Most of the current 170,000 are serving terms for drug and human trafficking and sundry immigration offences.
Protesters, please stop blocking the highways
Protesters have made an unsavoury habit of blocking public highways as a means of drawing public attention and support in all parts of the country. In so doing, they subject fellow citizens struggling to meet their daily needs to untold and unnecessary hardship.
