FG and Umahi’s roads to hell
By Dele Sobowale Vanguard recently published pathetic pictures of the Benin-Sapele-Warri Expressway; and Punch revealed to us what happens to the Lagos-Calabar Expressway, not even 15 per cent completed, each time there is a heavy downpour in the Lekki peninsula. The road becomes so flooded, it becomes barely usable. Morning shows the day. If Tinubu-Umahi’s […]
I went below poverty line in 2020
By Dele Sobowale “…CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need.” – President Buhari, December 2020 God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before […]
I went below the poverty line in 2020
“…CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need.” – President Buhari, December 2020 By Dele Sobowale God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before us. […]
State of the Nigeria economy, 2020
By Dele Sobowale “Our responsibility, I said, is to secure this country for all the citizens to do their businesses without any problems. We haven’t achieved that yet. …We have a lot of work ahead of us.” – President Buhari in NTA interview, December 2020. The question most frequently asked of me in my almost […]
How MACBAN, herdsmen and FG devastated poultry sector
Ogbeh, former Minister of Communications under President Shagari and of Agriculture under Buhari from 2015 to 2019, was wrong. His generation of Northerners actually left several awful things behind for their children. One of them is a devastated poultry industry and its repercussions. Ogbeh actually contributed to that problem during his years as Buhari’s Minister. Indeed, if the President is asked to name those who helped to bring his administration to the point where the hitherto supportive ACF, are now “depressed, very depressed”, Audu Ogbeh should be top on the list of culprits. Here is why.
Farming ends in Borno, national famine begins in earnest
By Dele Sobowale “Over 100 confirmed dead…” The news report brought back memories of my years in Haske Rice Mills, along Kalambina Road, Sokoto, next to Sokoto Cement then. We purchased paddy rice from all over Northern Nigeria, including Borno State. Most of the farmers, like others at the Bakolori Dam area in Zamfara and […]
