The Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) has called for total abolition of custom duties on imported fish feeds and fish farm facilities.

Where is our President, that was the dominant question at the mass rally called by some eminent Nigerians in Abuja during the week, to protest the continued absence of President Umaru Yar”Adua from the country.

In the early hours of November 23, 2009, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was allegedly wheeled out of Aso Rock and flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment over a speculated degenerative ailment known as Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS).

The proposed use of full-body Scanners to screen international travelers passing through our international airports will undoubtedly violate the rights to human dignity and privacy of citizens as guaranteed by Sections 34(1)(a) and 37 respectively of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 in so far as no law has been made by the National Assembly to authorize the use of the equipment in the interest of defence, public safety, public order, public morality or public health or for the purpose of protecting the rights and freedom of other persons as permitted by Section 45(1) of the Constitution.

There are many unresolved problems in Nigeria , but the issue of corruption is not only troubling but herculean. The damage it has done is so terrible. The menace of corruption leads to slow movement of files in offices, police extortion and slow traffics on the highways, ghost workers syndrome, election irregularities, etc.