THE recent unprovoked killings of some people in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen despite the information given to the police and other security operatives by the state governor is another ugly chapter of the sordid saga of some herdsmen operating under the veneer of terrorism.

ARE you see what I’m saw?” Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo, alias 4.30, often asked his co-actors this question in Masquerade, the soap opera that held millions, especially east of the Niger River, spellbound during the 1970s and 1980s. Each time he put that question, there was something astonishing or peculiar. Often that peculiar or astonishing “something” formed the bedrock upon which a specific offering of the episodic sitcom was developed.

EXPECTEDLY, people should react to what can best be described as glib talk by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has tagged both Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” nations, during a video conversation he had with Queen Elizabeth of England. The Prime Minister was talking about the anti-corruption summit, which was recently held in London that took place at Buckingham Palace, to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday.

Events in the last couple of weeks or probably months have centred around unprecedented scarcity or non-availability of petrol in all parts of the country.

That iron and steel constitutes the fundamental fulcrum on which technological development and advancement can take place remains an unquestionable truism. From the Paleolithic Age, the Mesolithic Age down through the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, the illusive variable for development has always been “Iron”. Its discovery as a tool of civilisation stimulated a sonorous Hosanna, to the modern world. But man is, however, already in the Space Age.