Trump card
Eight weeks into hostilities by the United States and Israel against Iran, the endgame is up in the air and the effects yet crushing on the global economy. Nigerians aren’t being spared. A two-week ceasefire struck on 8th April between Washington and Tehran expires this Wednesday, as the gladiators prospect for enduring truce terms. Israeli attacks on Iran’s proxy militant group, Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon had threatened the ceasefire, but that has been defused with a 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon that took effect last Thursday. Pakistan led efforts in bringing the combatants to the negotiation table, and its officials were as at late last week running the rounds between American and Iranian authorities and consulting with other Gulf states that have a stake in the war, so to get the foes talking again. U.S. President Donald Trump voiced optimism that the war would end soon, and that a fresh round of talks would yield “amazing” results. That was cold comfort, though, beca...