Nigeria became the first country in history to cede its territory and willingly agreed to displace its own citizens, in their home land in peace time, to honour its war time obligations and in the spirit of African brotherhood.

The prices are increasing on a daily basis because of the flood. For instance, we use to buy a bag of white garri at the rate of N3,000 before the flood. But now, the price has gone up to N6,000 . Likewise beans.

Although Nigerians have been assured that the country will not be plunged into food crisis. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, made this declaration.

With resilient spirit,Nigeria can escape the looming food scarcity, this is the contention of Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture.

There are fears among many people that the country is most likely to witness food shortage soon after the crippling floods which destroyed several farmlands and submerged many communities across the country.

The aftermath of the ravaging flood witnessed in most parts of the country is gradually taking its toll on Nigerians as price of staple food continue to rise in each pasting day.
A Lagos based farmer, Jude Ogwu said Nigeria has no choice but to rely more on neighbouring countries and developed nations for our survival till the flood water which had washed away many farmland dries up.

ADDITIONALLY, the people suffer oil spills which are usually not cleaned and gas flaring which further depletes the ozone layer. In the oil producing areas, many farmlands are destroyed by oil exploitation; the waters are polluted thereby destroying fishing which is a major preoccupation of the people.

Lakemfa contributed this piece to the International Roundtable on Energy Emergency and Energy Transition organised by the Cornell Global Labour Institute, Cornell University, and the Rosa Luxemberg Foundation, New York. October 10 – 12, 2012

Vanguard spoke to one of the elders of Gelegele, Chief Kokoroko , whois an enigma and claims to be many things aside from being a chief and a Nigeria Police personnel.

SECONDLY, I would like to see a decent hospital or a full fledged operating and well equipped health centre. What we have now that is called a clinic within the community cannot even match what the average Red Cross unit can offer in terms of services.

ON enquiry, one of the women, Madam Tejuraboh, who volunteered information, said they sent their wares through the port to places like Bayelsa State, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, Lagos and even the riverine areas of Egun in Ondo State. She said it was cheaper and safer, adding that it eliminates the hassles from security personnel, who they usually met if they went by road.

President Goodluck Jonathan may have been seeking an escape route from legal and constitutional entanglement when he summoned the emergency meeting of October 3, 2012 over the Bakassi Peninsula saga as he could have breached the constitution by conceding a Nigerian territory without consent from the National Assembly. So a carefully choreographed sequence of events to hoodwink Nigerians was put on place with the summoning of the emergency meeting and setting up a committee of ‘do-nothing’.

[The proposed benchmark is] “based on a well established econometric methodology of estimating oil price moving averages”- President Jonathan, during presentation of the 2013 Budget

Dr. Akintola Omigbodun is an expert in flood management. In this interview, he says the floods ravaging many states in Nigeria are avoidable. Omigbodun, who fielded questions from Vanguard editors during a visit to the media house, last week, also deplores the Ministry of Water Resources’ handling of the crisis and warns that there are grave dangers ahead for Lagos and Ogun states should the water in Oyan Dam not be properly managed.

I am sad and distressed that a literary giant and an elder statesman such as Professor Chinua Achebe should be credited with the statement attributed to him in his latest book on the Nigerian Civil War at this time in Nigeria’s political history, over 40 years after.