Helping our poultry farmers’ needs
Nigeria’s poultry industry is at a dangerous crossroads. The recent call for reforms is therefore more than an industry lobby. It is a warning about food security, nutrition, jobs and the wider economy. An industry capable of supplying affordable eggs and chicken is being strangled by expensive and unreliable inputs. Feed, which can account for […]
Return of 82 more Chibok girls
THE successful negotiation and release of 82 of the abducted Chibok school girls over the past weekend filled well-meaning Nigerians with joy and relief. It has rekindled the hope for the return of the remaining 113 victims.
Enough of budget cycle rollovers
THE unhappy fate of the 2017 Budget is one more proof that Nigerian government finds it difficult to carry out simple tasks which are taken for granted in other climes. Government in this case means the Executive and Legislative branches which have the joint responsibility under the constitution to pass the annual appropriation bills.
Macron’s lesson for our youth
Nigeria’s young, aspiring leaders have a thing or two to learn from the political sagacity of French liberal centrist politician, Emmanuel Macron, who blazed to an emphatic victory after the two-stage presidential election that ended on Sunday, 7th May 2017. He beat his sole opponent of the ultra-rightist National Front, Ms Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, by 65 per cent to 35 per cent of the votes already counted. Le Pen immediately conceded.
Compensate football viewing centre victims’ families
THE football frenzy that turned tragic at a viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State recently calls to question the authorities’ concern for the sanctity of human lives.
Recession: Need for cautious optimism
The recent prediction of the end of the ongoing economic recession by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, by the third quarter of this year is a bit hasty though the citizenry could do with the good news to brighten their moods.
