Tackling informal sector food adulteration
Food adulteration has become one of the gravest threats confronting Nigeria’s informal food sector. It is steadily eroding public confidence in the nation’s food supply, exposing millions of consumers to avoidable health hazards and undermining efforts to build a safe, secure and sustainable food system. Food nourishes and sustains life. When it instead becomes a […]
FG’s alcohol, tobacco tariff hike
Fears of the stakeholders are that the excise increase could trigger massive layoffs in the sector’s 20,000-strong work force, raise the prices of the locally-manufactured products and lead to the smuggling of cheaper foreign brands, which would hurt the economy in many ways.
Making Nigeria safer for tourism
IT is heartwarming to note that in spite of daunting security challenges facing the nation and its infrastructural deficits the tourism sector has continued to expand its contributions to the economy.
Wanted: Probe not tainted with malice
THE recent mudslinging between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo should provide Nigeria with an opportunity to have a conclusive look into the matter of how federal funds were spent in the Power sector during the Obasanjo regime.
As Buhari enters his fourth year
Having inherited an economy that was rapidly heading towards recession due to falling oil prices and lack of savings, the regime did not help matters when it failed to quickly define a new economic direction. The slow pace of forming the Federal cabinet further dampened the confidence of local and international stakeholders in our economy.
MAN’s “drive alcohol-free” campaign
This is quite different from the scenario witnessed with the tobacco manufacturers who, for years, dithered and spent billions to slow down the efforts of regulators to ensure that warnings of the dangers of smoking were inscribed on cigarette packs.
