WHILE the Christmas Day is fairly simpler to understand due to its direct religious linkage to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Boxing Day, which was celebrated yesterday (26th December, 2018), is more complex and needs some explaining. It is the natural culmination of the Christmas celebrations.

In the preliminary investigation already done by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC headed by the Chief Prosecutor, Ms Fatou Bensouda, over the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the course of the violence, six cases have reportedly been established against the terrorists.

WE find the war of nerves between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Army on the one hand, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF and global human rights group, Amnesty International, AI, on the other, very troubling and unnecessary.

IN an outburst of bottled-up frustration and anger, some critical stakeholders in the Apapa area of Lagos have come together to issue the Federal and Lagos State governments a 21-day ultimatum to clear the armada of trucks that have, for years, made life a living hell for them and the Nigerian economy at large.

LAST week, the Federal Government gave what appeared as conflicting signals on the state of the economy. On Friday, December 14, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the 36 governors and confirmed what experts had feared since last year when we edged out of recession: the economy is in bad shape.