We are deeply perturbed by the escalating conflicts between heavily-armed cattle herdsmen and indigenous communities, especially in the four geopolitical zones of North Central, South East, South West and South-South.

A total of 1, 934, 765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of the insurgency in the north eastern state. According to Saad Bello, the Yola Camp Coordinator in Adamawa State, Borno has 19 camps with 150, 858 IDPs; Yobe has nine camps with 31, 988 IDPs and Adamawa four camps with 6, 937 IDPs.

SMALL and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are the engines of free enterprise economies. The SME sector leads others in employment generation and even sustains large-scale enterprises. All the blue-chip companies and multinational corporations we have today were once SMEs.

The adoption of Nigeria as the hub of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) is instructive. It followed the clearance by the African Union of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to host not just the West African sub-regional CDC, but also the African CDC Regional Collaborating Centre, based on the quality and integrity of the health structures and facilities in the country.

Nigeria has for most of the Fourth Republic had the unenviable experience of having inexperienced persons as ministers of sports. However, it is arguable if a worse experience can be imagined than the present situation with the incumbent Minister of Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung.