The Strait of Hormuz must stay open
The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, and its uninterrupted flow is essential to global stability. Every day, approximately 21 million barrels of crude oil-roughly 21 per cent of global petroleum consumption-pass through this narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. To nickname it a “special international waterway” and treat it as […]
As oil price crisis looms again
As at end of November 2018, international oil price had crashed below the 2019 Federal Budget oil price benchmark of $60 per barrel, after about seven weeks of free fall. Oil price had peaked at $86 per barrel early October.
Defusing basic education time-bomb
The National Council on Education, NCE, without pondering the implications of this unwholesome measure, approved it for implementation as from September 2014 amidst protests from Christian and Muslim interest groups
Probe the Metele Boko Haram massacre
FROM Day One, the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency has been a big mystery to most Nigerians. How an otherwise “rag-tag” band of religious outlaws ballooned into one of the most notorious terror machines in the world, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Nigerians and rendering more than two million people homeless in spite of the gallant efforts of the Nigerian Army and Air Force, is something difficult to fathom.
Death of Offa robber kingpin
NIGERIA is being seriously dogged by unbelievably violent crimes, perhaps as a result of grinding poverty, poor leadership and growing desperation among the citizenry. This year, the Offa bank robbery in April was easily one of the most notably violent crimes on record.
Returning Plateau IDPs to their homes
IT is heart-warming that concrete plans are being made to return Plateau State indigenes chased away from their communities by rampaging armed herdsmen militias over the past year.
