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(1) When I look at the current collapse in global production figures, the last time we witnessed anything similar was during World War Two. In Nigeria today, we are kind of where Europe was in 1940 when industrial output slumped, there was food rationing, Home Guards and partisan militias needed to be formed to combat the threat of insecurity and the future looked very bleak. However, by 1943, the tables had been turned and industrial output was at an unprecedented high

ISLAMIC body Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has waded into the ongoing national debate about Fulani cattle herdsmen by calling no President Muhammadu Buhari to give the pastoralists government money to enable them by land for ranches.

WORLD Bank officials have warned that between 15m and 20m Nigerians will be sucked into extreme poverty by 2022 as a result of the global economic slowdown precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

YORUBA rights activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho has criticised the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi for not presenting a robust enough case about the Fulani cattle herdsmen menace during his recent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

BAUCHI State's religious police known as the Hisbah has confiscated 260 crates of alcoholic drinks from hotels and night clubs as part of a crackdown on practices it deems un-Islamic under its hardline Sharia laws.

NIGERIA'S main seaport at Apapa in Lagos State has been offered respite from the terrible gridlock that has characterised its operations for the last 20 or so years after the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) revealed it has connected it by rail.

PRESIDENT Joe Biden has appointed another Nigerian to a prominent position in his administration naming Enoh Ebong as the new acting director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

Ayo Akinfe

(1) For starters, the United Nations average policemen to citizens is 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. In Nigeria, the figure is a dismal 300 policemen to 350,000 citizens, so massive recruitment is needed

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed suggestions that the next inspector-general of police must come from the southeast geo-political zone as a matter of course in line with Nigeria's zoning principle.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had its hearing for defrauding the government reset for June 7 after an Abuja high court rejected his motion that the matter be adjourned indefinitely when he appeared today.