NIGERIA is a country with diverse but abundant natural resources. The landmass of Nigeria is about one million square kilometres. There are numerous mineral resources scattered all over the nation. Nigeria’s land is so fertile that farmers do not require fertilizer before reaping bumper harvest in some areas.

IN a recent interview Senator Joseph Waku, Vice Chairman of the Arewa Consultaive Forum, ACF, granted to a national newspaper (not the Vanguard), he exhibited his usual mercenary style with all its lies and inconsistencies. One of his outlandish claims was that the Boko Haram insurgency was the making of President Goodluck Jonathan so that he and his people could ‘blackmail’ the ‘North’ in order to have a legitimate excuse to secede from Nigeria.

EVERY beginning anticipates an end. Even the holy book underlines extensively that there is time for everything. And so the reality has dawned on all of us that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has bowed out as the curtain fell on him in this world which to him has been a massive stage on which he played out his part with an impact unignorable.

EVERYONE, young and old alike felt the impact of the fuel subsidy removal and nationwide strike that accompanied the implementation.

ONE of the notorious quirks bedeviling governance in Nigeria is the tendency for what started out as a firm, decisive and desirable government action to unceremoniously fizzle out into blatant back-tracking or abrupt disinterest and lingering inaction, often witnessing a pathetic return to business as usual.