The Nigerian Armed Forces have for some time been carrying out sustained military campaigns to subdue the Islamist monster called Boko Haram. This extremist terrorist organisation has visited Nigeria’s North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa with a savagery that defies logic and understanding.

Penultimate weekend, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, announced that Nigeria would increase crude oil production to meet local demand but not for the international market.

Recently, Senator Suleiman Nazif, who represents Bauchi North in the Senate, gave vent to his concern over the alarming proliferation of abandoned projects in Nigeria. Most of these projects have remained abandoned and outlived the various governments that initiated them.

FINALLY, former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, is answering to charges of abuse of procurement process and diversion of public funds preferred against him and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of Labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. Since those early years, the Day has assumed a new global dimension.