The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday July 11th, 2022 – World Population Day
World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world’s population reached five billion people. World Population Day aims to increase people’s awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.
Unknown Gunmen and the worsening security challenge by Kola King
Despite claims by President Muhammadu Buhari in a recent interview with Bloomberg News that the security situation has improved on his watch, daily events and reports across the country appear to turn his claims on their head. Those claims are at odds with reality. In fact, the past six weeks have been particularly brutal and deadly. Scores of kidnapping cases and killings have been reported in most parts of the country. In that interview, the president waxed lyrical about the security situation and explained that things had improved considerably.
On the contrary, the nation has been on edge and in a perpetual state of mourning. It’s as if we are in a state of war, with no hiding place for anyone. Nowhere seems to be safe any longer. The highways are not safe, the farms are not safe, and even homes are no longer safe as well since the kidnappers have upped their game by abducting people right in their homes, this is especially the case in some communities in Kaduna and Zamfara States.
President Buhari spoke with pride and self-satisfaction about his administration’s achievements. He declared that his administration is the only one in Nigeria’s history to have proffered solutions to farmers-herders conflicts, exarcebated by desertification and demographic growth by introducing the National Livestock Transformation Plan, putting ranching at its core as the cure-all solution to the competition for grazing land. Nevertheless, the issue of open cattle grazing remains unresolved and has been the harbinger of several conflicts and deaths in many communities across the nation. This explains why some states in the south have passed the anti-open grazing bill into law.
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Baggage #poem #painting by Amir Khatib
“What do you think, brother, that we gather our needs and leave.
It’s still dark much of the night,
Should we carry it with us?”
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A fistful of cactus #30 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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