Territorial gain on Tinubu’s call

on May 14 went largely unnoticed because its significance was lost on a section of the media. Elsewhere, such ceremonies are celebrated with pomp and panoply, with the media in the front row, covering the event. As a result of the media freeze, the citizens have been kept in the dark about it. Up till now, it has not been a hot topic for discussion on television channels that take delight in tearing the President apart. Let them tear this issue apart now and not the person of the President.

The territorial gain could not have come at a better time than now that the Tinubu administration is planning to celebrate its first year in office. There is no anniversary gift better than the extension of Nigeria’s maritime boundaries by 200 nautical miles. The extension is the outcome of a five-year project. In 2019, Nigeria applied to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend its continental shelf.

All that is required is to explore these enormous resources for the betterment of the country. Many African countries, however, fail in this regard because of the lack of capacity to explore and use these resources for their turnaround, thereby leaving the highly lucrative cabotage and maritime industry to foreigners. This is a subject for another day.

The President put it better when he received the HPPC members: “Nigeria is grateful for the efforts that you put into gaining additional territory for the country without going to war. Some nations went to war, lost people and economic opportunities. We lost nothing but have gained great benefits for the country”. The challenge is in making these benefits go round. As the President often says, the people come first in whatever he does.

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