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.

THE tone and tenor of speeches of Heads of State and government at the Regional Security Summit hosted on Saturday by President Muhammadu Buhari suggest that the countries in the Lake Chad region are looking beyond the Boko Haram terrorism.

SINCE the army swooped on the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly called shittes, in what the media and the political establishment including the army authorities mis-represently referred to as “clash” last December, there has been no let up in the smear campaign to tarnish these simple and ordinary Nigerian Muslims.