President Bola Tinubu has adequately demonstrated his commitment to mechanised agriculture as a means of unlocking the massive food potentials of Nigeria. Any time he mentions “agriculture”, he almost never fails to accompany it with the word: “mechanised”. We saw this early in his administration when he delegated his then Spokesman, Dele Alake, on July 13, […]

The Bola Tinubu administration has, through several policy measures, demonstrated commendable interest in extending credit facilities to the youth and needy to promote financial inclusion. The first was the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, which was inaugurated in 2024. It was created to offer indigent students of tertiary institutions interest-free loans which would be repaid […]

President Bola Tinubu last week handed over the affairs of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to his successor, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, with obvious sigh of relief after his two-year tenure. Under him, the Community split in two, with Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger moving away to form the […]

It is a common sight in major cities of Nigeria to see young men pushing wheel barrows stocked with gallons in search of water as access to potable water remains a major challenge for majority of city dwellers.  Most city dwellers today rely on private water vendors and boreholes to meet their domestic needs.  Those […]

Mokwa and other nearby communities in Niger State are still bleeding profusely from the flood disaster of May 28, 2025, which took about 200 lives (with about 500 still missing), demolished 265 homes, damaged 3,000 others and rendered over 5,000 individuals refugees in their home towns. This tragedy could have been avoided if our governments […]