The absence of effective rail connectivity is disrupting the operations of the Kaduna, Dala, and Funtua Inland Dry Ports (IDPs), hindering the movement of export and import cargo to and from seaports.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has revealed that unnecessary delays in clearing cargoes at seaports cost shippers an additional N70,000 daily per container in storage charges paid to terminal operators.

The endorsement by the Oyo State government of the Ifa divination choice of Prince Abimbola Owoade as the Alaafin of Oyo is undoubtedly an official confirmation of the continuing relevance of an old-time practice in the present tense. 

Statecraft and the pursuit of national interest through articulated foreign policy goals in an international system of increasing centers of power, concert systems and growing tensions among major global powers must be a priority for every medium power, ambitious and rising state, especially from the global south.

The primacy of strategic national interests, ambivalence on human rights, the whimsical observance of the rule of law, divergent economic and political ideologies, muscularity and isolationist foreign policy goals by super powers and others