Nigeria was not the only country polled using the same metrics of assessment. Whether we like it or not, this report will definitely be used by global players, especially in the areas of investment and economic transactions, to make their decisions as to which countries to approach and those to shun.

The livelihoods of over 40 million people have been put at risk and what used to be Lake Chad could turn into pure desert. Research has thrown up fossilised evidences that in prehistoric times, most of the deserts today, including the Sahara Desert, used to be vast seas.

THE attack on the Government Girls Technical College, in Dapchi, Yobe State, apart from re-opening the unhealed wounds which the abduction of Chibok girls left in the national psyche, has once again dealt a wicked blow to the national effort to promote girl-child education in Nigeria. Most painfully, it is occurring in the most educationally-disadvantaged zone in the country.

The NLC had as its founding President, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu whose leadership  built the administrative foundations of the Congress, secured its first headquarters in Lagos, popularised the NLC in the consciousness of Nigerians, promoted the culture of collective leadership and won the first National Minimum Wage in the country.

Chief Audu Ogbeh, who is privileged to be appointed Minister for the second time, is repeating a mistake he made over 30 years ago when he was the Minister of Communications under President Shehu Shagari.