If not for the vigilance and commitment of this gallant officer, some of the law-abiding members of the university community who are still alive and going about their normal livelihood would have added to the gory statistics and body count that the Boko Haram Islamist terror has wreaked in the state, especially the University of Maiduguri, in recent years.

Worse still, a 2016 study of patients at the Radiation Oncology Department at University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan in Oyo State, carried out by the IAEA, had observed that 80 per cent of patients were unable to afford radiotherapy without financial assistance.

Most successful countries engage in long-term planning as a means of overcoming most of their capital developmental challenges but in Nigeria, they hardly get implemented. They have become the greatest sources of abandoned projects which litter our national landscape.

The reality is that several other public office holders and wealthy private individuals illegally mount sirens on their convoys bringing serious discomfort to other motorists and pedestrians. Banks have also joined the craze with sirens on their bullion vans.

The threat of massive famine in 2018 and 2019 is becoming a reality to those close to Nigeria’s farmlands. In the past, food shortages had occurred on account of unfavourable weather or pest infestation. Low rainfall or excessive flooding as well as locust attacks had in the past also resulted in low food productivity.

While we acknowledge that this indiscriminate ownership of arms has a direct link with the spillover of the Libyan crisis, it is pertinent to situate it in the failure of the nation’s security agencies to arrest the influx.

FOLLOWING on the heels of the recently concluded local government elections in Kano State, videos and photos of children, some of them as young as seven queueing in long lines to vote have sparked outrage in the social media. Nigerian laws prescribe that a person must be 18 or above to be eligible to vote

Most of the current 170,000 are serving terms for drug and human trafficking and sundry immigration offences.

Protesters have made an unsavoury habit of blocking public highways as a means of drawing public attention and support in all parts of the country. In so doing, they subject fellow citizens struggling to meet their daily needs to untold and unnecessary hardship.

. He was sent to restore law and order in the state. He and his men are supposed to conduct themselves in a professional and impartial manner to instill confidence in the populace, no matter what side of the conflict they belong to.