By pronouncing the subsidy over with immediate effect during his inauguration, Tinubu plunged the economy into a tailspin. Petrol price tripled in many parts of the country and became scarce as marketers shut their gates.

Over the centuries, the herdsmen who used to be peaceful became violent because the grazing routes that their host communities allowed them to use to move their cattle around were taken over for the use of the exploding human population for farming and housing.

Unfortunately, vultures are stigmatised in certain cultures, mainly due to social misconceptions and folklore associating them with death and decay.

THE early Wednesday morning coup that ousted President Ali Bongo of Gabon is yet another clear signal that military intervention in our part of Africa is returning to the centre stage after a few decades of romance with democracy.

We also expect the states to initiate their own respective independent measures rather than merely lying supine to suck from the Federal Government’s feeding bottle, a pandering to dependency syndrome. The states have also benefited immensely from increased federal allocation since the subsidy removal implementation started three months ago.