Food safety: How safe is food in Nigeria?
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. It is common knowledge that the condition of foods from the farms and handling by food processors are major determinants of nutritional status of a given society. But how safe is food in the country today?
4008, Peugeot’s gift to 4×4 world
Peugeot 4008 sport utility, vehicle. This is an unusual Peugeot. The renowned French car maker is not known for making sport utility vehicles (SUVs). It is a master, when it comes to the production of sedans and estates. But as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of inventions, Peugeot has taken advantage of the current trend in the automobile industry whereby sport utility vehicles have become the way forward to launch itself into the SUV category
Real estate: Always the crumbs
THE real estate sector has taken on the harshest side of the stick for decades. Though very important, it is often the forgotten sector that takes a dismal share after all other sectors have taken their fat portions. It is a paradox of some sorts because real estate which connotes houses, roads and other infrastructural facilities that make modern living worthwhile, ought to be given the priority it rightly deserves because housing follows quickly on the heels of food as the greatest needs of man.
7 die, 18 injured in Bauchi auto crash
Bauchi—No fewer than seven persons were killed yesterday, while 18 others sustained injuries in a motor accident along Misau Road, about five kilometres from Azare town of Katagum Local Government Area, Bauchi State.
Delta gov poll: Urhobo insists on Ogboru
The emergence of Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) as President-elect, on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, notwithstanding, the Urhobo nation, yesterday, said it will ignore a plot by some elites to dump the candidate of the Labour Party, Chief Great Ogboru, for that of the APC, Chief O’tega Emerhor, as the new consensus candidate of the ethnic group.
2011 BONGA OIL SPILL: Victims fault Shell’s refusal to pay $3.6bn compensation
SHORELINE communities and fisher-persons in Delta and Bayelsa States, affected by the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, Bonga oil spill of December 20, 2011, have described as bizarre, an alleged refusal by the company to pay $3.6 billion compensation to the victims of the crude oil spill, as directed by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, on grounds that some persons took the firm to court over the spill.
