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 […]
Room To Meddle
SHOCKS over the United States Government’s order that Nigeria has to improve ports security or face sanctions – stoppage of vessels sailing to Nigerian ports – are indicative that Nigerians do not fully appreciate the implications of being members of the global village. It may be a village, but it has standards.
No Naming, No Shaming
FOUR days ago, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala gave federal agencies that withheld N58 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, up till today to remit the funds.
Dictatorship In Other Forms
SENATE President David Achelenu Mark in Prague, Czech Republic, said military rule was gone forever in Nigeria. Mark thrilled his audience with Nigeria’s efforts to sustain democracy after it has run uninterrupted civilian administrations for 14 years.
IEA disparages Nigeria’s plan to export refined products
BY MICHAEL EBOH with Agency Report Projections that Nigeria will begin to export refined petroleum products by 2016 may not materialize after all, as the International Energy Agency, IEA, yesterday, said it expects a significant increase in oil processing with the coming on stream of new refineries in Asia and Middle East. The IEA in […]
Help Police, Help Nigeria
THE Nigerian Bar Association’s call on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the Nigeria Police Force should be taken seriously. The police are not in any state to serve Nigerians meaningfully.
Always Politics Of Convenience
THE furores in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over its governors’ conducts and the possibilities of no primaries for the 2015 elections are part of the politics of convenience that the party has been playing exceptionally well since 1999.
Still Ignoring June 12
JUNE 12 still stands even if it is as a fading political momentum. More than half the population of Nigerians younger than 30 do not know much about the election, in 1993, which Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won but the military annulled. It remains one of the most tumultuous moments in the past 20 years.
Elevating Electricity To Enigma
BASIC as electricity is to modern living; there is a basic misunderstanding about reflecting this importance in the lives of Nigerians. The people are unimpressed about government trumpeted gains in managing the challenges of electricity supply.
Plight of Abuja Medical Students
ABUJA has become used to medical students of the University of Abuja flooding the highways leading into the city, to protest the continued insensitivity of the university authorities to their plight. Many of the students after eight years in the institution have not advanced beyond the 300 level though ordinarily it takes six years to graduate as medical doctors.
More Than Memorials
A CENATOPH – the second in eight years – was erected for victims of the Dana crash of 3 June 2012 at the crash site in Iju-Ishaga, a crowded Lagos neighbourhood. The plane’s 153 passengers and crew, and another 10 people on ground perished.
