THE Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, President, Mr. Amaju Pinnick, recently showed what it means to be one’s brother’s keeper. Unlike others, he chose to be more than a mere sympathiser in the pathetic situation of Nigeria’s international football star, Wilson Oruma.

THE appropriateness or otherwise of the age-old “culture” of meting out corporal punishment such as flogging of erring students in schools by teachers or senior students has been the subject of debates for ages.

Obasanjo, who enrolled in the university with Matriculation Number 146058901, successfully defended his thesis entitled: Resolving the Unfinished Agenda in Liberation Theology: Leadership, Poverty and Underdevelopment in North Eastern Nigeria. He was praised by Dr Samaila Mande, the Dean of Postgraduate School of NOUN, for being a pace-setter in the course which he manages.

To say that this and other gestures of empathy and goodwill by the EU and other humanitarian bodies are welcome is putting it mildly. It is a huge relief, especially for a state whose government has bravely but with determination carried the grim burden of the carnage while spending much of its lean resources in caring for the displaced persons and rebuilding devastated communities.

THE World Bank recently released its 2018 economic growth forecasts for nations all over the world. Global Gross Domestic Product, GDP, is supposed to grow by 3.1 per cent during this year.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Anchor Borrowers’ Programme initiated on November 17, 2015 to boost the production of key agricultural commodities set off a major stampede in small-holder involvement in rice production in many states of the Federation.

THE death of two medical doctors and one nurse from Lassa fever in Ebonyi State once again highlights the need for decisive measures to strengthen the nation’s health system and proactively respond to disease outbreaks.

The value of human life, it seems, has been greatly diminished within the borders of the country. It is remarkable that this sickening glut of bloodletting is happening in a regime that came to power with the promise of instilling discipline and the rule of law on the polity and protecting the citizenry.

THE Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo-led Committee set up by the National Economic Council, NEC, to tackle the armed herdsmen menace in the country is the highest gesture by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in solving this national crisis.

THE report in Sunday Vanguard of December 24, 2017 about 60 per cent revenue loss to fraud in Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, should ring alarm bells in The Presidency, the National Assembly, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, the anti-graft agencies and the general populace, especially as no one has debunked it.