NIGERIA emphasized long occupation, peaceful consolidation, and Cameroon’s acquiescence of Nigeria’s long presence at Bakassi, rather than title to the land, as proof of ownership, meaning that she acknowledged Cameroon’s ownership of Bakassi!

WHEN Prof. Walter Ofonagoro told the audience at the 12th brainstorming that the April 1893 boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon at the Rio Del Rey estuary was suppressed at the International Court of Justice to achieve a dubious aim of giving out Bakassi peninsula as war booty to Cameroon, not a few persons were convinced.

Nowa Omoigui in this third instalment argues thatthe Bakassi peninsula which was part of Camerun/Cameroon since 1913, as inherited in the League of Nations mandate after World War 1, was excised from co-administration with the Eastern region along with the rest of the Southern Cameroons at the time of Nigeria’s independence

This is an exclusive report of how men of the Department of State Service, DSS, and the Joint Task Force, JTF, tracked and killed Abu Qaqa, the dreaded spokesman of the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, last Monday, in a suburb of Kano State, North West Nigeria.

His voice rang heavily through the tape showing his anger not only on the way government is handling the subsidy issue with the marketers but on how some militants, ambushed and killed some oil workers who had gone to the Atlas cove to effect repairs on the damaged pipelines causing the current fuel scarcity in most part of the country.

From the mainland to the highland, it was a tale of woes as most filling stations were shut to customers. Though, fuel attendants were seen standing on-guard at their duty post but not dispensing the product.

Is it a time bomb waiting to explode? Will it strengthen the nation or mar it? Obviously whichever way it is viewed, 2015 is a year with so, much uncertainties just as it is very critical to the future of Nigeria.

Although normalcy is gradually returning to some filling stations in Lagos and in other states, but the fuel scarcity that hits the country has continued to send conflicting signal into the consciousness of the people.

Once again, like a recurring decimal, the nation faced another bouts of fuel scarcity as Lagos and other south-west states got their douse during the week.

ON January 1, 1960 the French Cameroons became independent. Instruments creating the new country and exchange of notes between France and Cameroun rehashed all its colonial boundaries as defined by previous colonial agreements.

Nowa Omoigui undertakes an historical excursion into the agreements on Bakassi dispute and asserts that the Obong of Calabar voluntary signed a treaty of protection with the British in 1884 who eventually ceded it to Germany

THE contemporary boundary problems that exist between Nigeria and Cameroon particularly over the ownership and control of Bakassi Peninsula can be traced primarily to colonialism, the scrabble for African territories and the creation of artificial boundaries in Africa.

THE judgment of the International Court of Justice, which purported to award the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun, is to all intents and purposes outrageous, blatantly unjust and patently unsupportable.

AGAINST the backdrop of numerous dangers street trading pose to lives as well as the unhygienic attitude of most Lagos residents, the State Government outlawed all forms of street trading. Those who run foul of the law, are liable to pay an unspecified amount of money as fines or go to jail as the case may be.

THE rainy season is a period most travellers on the East- West road in the Niger Delta region wish should never be. This is due to the nightmare and bitter experience they go through on the road during the rainy season . For many years now, the road has been in a very deplorable state and the situation becomes worse for travellers whenever the rains set in.