Editorial

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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NOA’s struggle for funding support

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

Justice for abused corps member in Kwara

The Kwara State Ministry of Education and the authorities of Government Day Junior Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin, moved swiftly to address a case of severe assault of an unnamed National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member by a teacher in the school where she had just completed her service year. The student was reportedly attacked by […]

Gov. Bago’s exemplary religious tolerance

Niger State, the largest sub-national entity in Nigeria by landmass, was recently in the news for the right reasons. Its Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Umar Bago, a banker and former federal lawmaker, set a tone of religious tolerance that shocked many. Though a very devoted Muslim, he not only authorised the staging of a massive […]

Making Nigeria, South Africa ties work

President Bola Tinubu last week joined his counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, for the 11th Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission, BNC, in Cape Town, South Africa, in an effort to address the often troubled relationship between the two African giants. With Africa as the perennial centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, we have always played the Big Brother role. […]

Police mess: Put them in the dock

It goes with little argument that the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, is one of the most graphic reflections of our largely morally decadent society. Its current handlers also need to do more to re-establish it as a serious, matured agency of law enforcement and pursuit of justice both for its personnel and members of the […]

Justice for Offa bank robbers

The proverbial long arm of the law has scored another big hit, with the arrest, diligent prosecution and sentencing of the robbers who invaded Offa town in Kwara State on April 5, 2018. It was a bank robbery unlike no other. Beyond the use of explosives to burst bank vaults, the gangsters embarked upon an […]

Making taxes work for the people

In a number of ways, President Bola Tinubu is keeping some of his campaign promises which, however, are taking harsh tolls on the people. All major presidential candidates pledged to end petrol subsidy payments, a policy that Tinubu implemented from Day One of his administration. He had also campaigned on the need to “widen the […]

Need to register waste collectors

Recycling is a waste-to-wealth activity tailored towards fostering environmental sustainability. In our industrial age where large-scale production and consumption generate a lot of wastes, the environment gets severely polluted unless efforts are made to evacuate the waste. With our large population and huge appetite for consumption of mainly goods produced in other countries and dumped […]

Rebound of Port Harcourt Refinery

It came like a bolt from the blue last week Tuesday when the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced the resumption of crude oil refining at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, after years of inactivity. Many Nigerians did not believe the news, obviously because of the many failed promises of resumption. Some Nigerians […]

NOA’s struggle for funding support

THE National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

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