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Col Hamid Ali doesn’t seem to know what is going on in his agency, the Nigerian Customs Service or he simply decides to look the other way, leaving Customs with the same rot he met it.

Mankind is blessed with many plants among which the oil palm tree comes out on top. This tree is widely grown in Central America, Africa, and Asia (especially in Malaysia and Indonesia). Oil palm tree with the scientific name, elaeis guineensis, is considered the richest tree on earth. It has all its body parts useful to man. And it is one tree we can’t but enjoy its various usefulness.

Technology has caused changes to our way of life; we are very dependent on technology, many we rely on it for almost all their personal needs.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment has confirmed receipt of an application for the registration of a new university union, Congress of University Academics (CONUA), to be formed out of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Facebook Inc has announced it removed hundreds of pages, groups and accounts on its platforms for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” linked to three operations in Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Nigeria.

For most Nigerians, 1st October every year is a day to celebrate our independence from colonial rule. But fifty-nine years down the line, nothing has really changed. Some Nigerians say we are worse off now than we used to be under colonial rule. Where that is not true, they can not be blamed because the state and its polity have refused to improve. The white man may not be directly calling the shots, but we are surely still living under the heels of a privileged few.

Our Nile has refused to open and we are tired. Promise-and-fail have burnt our dear hearts. The land flowing with milk and honey now shed blood. It’ll get better they say but is it getting harder. We are cajoled into seeing another coming Messiah. Who knows if Nigeria will ever be healed?

We desire a working and sane government who would help build more schools and fund the existing ones with necessary equipment and facilities, train and employ more facilitators/teachers, re-visit the school curriculum, pay teachers/lecturers very well for their huge contributions in the society and help make a free flow academic calendar.

‘‘Aliko really knows people. He has relationships, he is willing to reach out to people. His ability to reach out, and the communication skills that Aliko has developed, have really been phenomenal,’‘ Gates said of his friend and partner.

To mark Nigeria’s Independence Day, our team share their hopes and expectations, they for their beloved country. It’s definitely worth the watch.

I may be right if I consider it ludicrous to celebrate independence when kidnapping, banditry, insurgency and general insecurity are becoming order of the day while nothing is done to get them eliminated.