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 […]
Suswan – A Joke Too Far
GABRIEL Suswan has raised alarm that some people were bent on kidnapping him and members of the family. With the spates of kidnaps all over the country, this would not have been any news. Some people would think this Suswan was an attention seeker. Suswan is the Governor of Benue State. He is really addressed […]
Kill Economy, Save Banks
THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, clampdown on five banks seemed like a move to stop the affected banks from throwing the economy over the cliff. We are in support of legitimate actions that can sanitise the economy, in all areas.
Halliburton Dead?
ANYONE who followed the dithering of the Federal Government over the Halliburton scandal would not be surprised about the silence after government said it instituted a high-level investigation that included all arms of the security agencies.
One Tenure Option
IN the midst of the determined confusions the Nigerian system serially throws up, it is easy to forget that the political reforms most people believe are inevitable if the country is to make progress, have been ignored.
Waziri – Time To Impress
CHAIRMAN of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Mrs. Farida Waziri appears to see the hunt for bank chiefs as an opportunity to impress those who rate the EFCC dead.
Age of scandals
SCANDAL is brewing over the ages of our players, who have been camped for two years in preparation for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, which Nigeria hosts in October. From the competition’s title, a player should not be up to 17 years old. Nigerian authorities pretended they were acting in line with this provision […]
Minister’s Missed Mission
THINGS that get our Ministers angry are the very things that benefit Nigerians. Our country appears marked out for Ministers who have missed their mission. The sight of Nigerians accessing any comfort disconcerts them. Minister of Aviation Mr. Babatunde Omotoba is against promotional fares. He has ruled that low airfares undermine safety. Government, he said, […]
2011 Like 2007
NIGERIA is replete with experts in post mortem. We operate mostly with hindsight. There are no lessons to be learnt, there are no changes to be made. The 2011 elections could finally confirm the country’s inability to change – the elections are only 20 months away, though we carry on as if those 20 months […]
Challenges For Onovo
FOR the first time in a long while, the appointment of the new Inspector General of Police not only followed due process but also resulted in the selection of the most qualified, competent and one of the most respected in the top echelon of the Nigeria Police – Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo.
Sanusi’s Bank Quake
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi would not have been under any illusions that his decision to sack managing directors of five banks, with their executive directors, would result in a tremor in the banking industry, even if the decision was meant to halt an accumulating quake. Friday’s sack of managing directors and executive […]
Angry? Then act
REACTIONS to the visit of Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the American Secretary of State, will continue with the same vacuity the visit re-emphasised guaranteed to continue. The anger that is running through the land after the visit has reached new level in official matters. Senate President, David Mark , is among those who are angry over […]
If ASUU Were Militants
ONE of the few good things about our governments is that they do not leave us guessing about their real agenda for too long. Nobody can fail to praise the present administration for its relentless push for peace in the Niger Delta. It is becoming clearer that nothing is more important to President Umaru Musa […]
Goje’s Judgement
An eye for an eye will make most of the world blind. – Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Minister of Defence, more famous as the one-eyed general Alhaji Muhammad Danjuma Goje, Governor of Gombe State supports the killing of the Boko Haram leaders. He also professes his respect for human rights, but Boko Haram has to […]
Clinton Came, So?
WE do not know what informed the high expectations the Nigerian authorities built around the visit of American Secretary of State Mrs. Hilary Clinton. It might well be that the visit soothed their jangled nerves after President Barack Obama visited Ghana. The comparisons Nigerian leaders make with other countries do not relate to imitating progress […]
Our Dying Children
Nigeria is a dying nation in various senses. The present is in tatters and the future is so compromised that it is only a prospect in bland terms. The state of the nation is portrayed by the state of our children – they are dying.
