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.