Editorial

Helping our poultry farmers’ needs 

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 […]
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Time now to clear the pension arrears

Time now to clear the pension arrears

LIKE a stalking nightmare, the spectre of the country’s ill-treatment of its pensioners continues to strike the conscience of the nation.

Cynthia Osokogu: Justice at last

Cynthia Osokogu: Justice at last

The Cynthia Osokogu Facebook love saga came to a somewhat fitting climax recently with two of the accused persons standing trial for her murder being sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Olabisi Akinlade.

Why another constitution panel?

Why another constitution panel?

When President Muhammadu Buhari delegated the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to inaugurate the 24-man Committee on Constitution and Electoral Reform headed by Senator Ken Nnamani early in October 2016, huge question marks trailed the exercise.

Get the real Shekau now!

Get the real Shekau now!

THE official admission by the Federal Government through the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, that the leader of Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, is still alive and hiding in the Sambisa Forest came as a shock to most Nigerians who had taken it for granted that the military were now simply conducting mop-up operations.

Presidency, National Assembly should work together

Presidency, National Assembly should work together

Working relations between the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government has, most of times in the past eighteen years of our renascent democracy, been tempestuous, with the President Olusegun Obasanjo years being the most notorious.