Former Chief Executive Officer, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), Professor Kayode Oni has said that food security in Nigeria can only be achieved through transformation of the rural area.

We have just cruised past the proverbial half year, and our capital market is still lying prostrate. Ten months down the line, nothing tangible has been done. Investors are groaning under severe pains inflicted through some incoherent and discordant reforms that have made Nigerians look so stupid.

Nigeria’s once-thriving palm oil industry is often cited as one of the most miserably failed economic opportunities in Africa.

Agriculture has suffered from years of mismanagement, inconsistent and poorly conceived government policies, and the lack of basic infrastructure. Still, the sector accounts for over 26.8% of GDP, and two-thirds of employment.

The limit imposed on banks’sale of autonomous foreign exchange to Bureaux De Change,BDCs by the CBN has triggered a boom in foreign exchange round-tripping. Banks are diverting foreign exchange from the inter-bank market to the parallel market to take advantage of the 800 kobo difference between the inter-bank foreign exchange rate and the parallel market rate occasioned by the limit.

Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, former Governor of the old Kaduna State, leader of the Peoples Redemption
Party, PRP and chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP is arguably the country”s leading critic of the present socio-political system.
An unabashed socialist, when the bourgeoisie styled Kaduna Polo Club sent him an invitation alongside with a mallet for him to join the club as the sitting Governor, he turned down the invitation and reportedly gave the mallet to a domestic worker saying “I don’t play polo … It is the game of the rich and powerful, of neo-colonialists”.
It is not surprising that Balarabe Musa has consistently fought against the powerful influence and power brokers since his first revelation in the second republi