By Niagale Bagayoko The difficulties encountered in dealing with crises and conflicts on the African continent can not be considered purely operational and technical. In reality, a number of obstacles related to the difficulty of taking into account, from a conceptual as well as a strategic point of view, the security dynamics currently at work, […]

IT is without a doubt that Nigeria’s primary resource of revenue, oil, has dipped in the international market due to global politics and increased production of hitherto oil-buying nations. This decline, made worse by the failure of the previous administrations to save for the rainy day, has impacted negatively on the nation’s balance sheet and financial strength.

Socio-cultural and political sentiments aside, fairness demands loud applause for the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari for two major executive propellants: the nudge towards making Nigeria become a knowledge-based economy, and the creation of the Department of Cartography and Geographic Information System, GIS, in the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation, OSGoF, are apt.

THE World HealthOrganisation, WHO, while commemorating this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day, released some staggering statistics on records of suicide across the globe. In the data revealed by WHO, at least one person dies worldwide from suicide every 40 seconds. Globally, apart from road injury, which is the number one cause of death, WHO reported that suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29, saying about 800,000 people die yearly due to suicide. According to WHO, for every death by suicide, 20 to 25 more people have attempted it.

As Edo State gubernatorial election draws nearer there is anxiety across all the Local Government Areas, LGAs.