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 […]
Protesters’ grievances must be addressed
It is an irony that President Bola Tinubu is asking peeved Nigerians to give him “more time” to fix the economy. He is asking the people to give him what he denied himself when he took the reins of power on May 29, 2023. Former President Muhammadu Buhari had gamely made financial provisions for the […]
Probe NMDPRA CEO’s weighty claims
Nigerians are shocked by the claim that Dangote Refinery and other startup modular refiners produce substandard products compared to their international counterparts. This controversial allegation came from no other than the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulation Authority, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, on July 18, 2024. According to him: “Dangote refinery as […]
Let’s protest responsibly
All appears set for the August 1, 2024 nationwide protest over hunger and hardship, which has been brewing for over one year. Nigerians were still recovering from the “no-money, no-fuel and no-food” economic crisis foisted on them by the expiring President Muhammadu Buhari regime in pursuit of a pointless “naira redesign policy” last year. His […]
Donald Trump’s narrow escape
The United States of America, USA, and by extension the world was saved a major disaster on Saturday, July 13, 2024 when former President, Donald Trump, narrowly survived an assassination attempt by a 20-year-old Thomas Crooks at a Republican Party rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he addressed his supporters, several shots rang out. One of […]
Saving Dangote Refinery from “Nigerian factor”
If all was well, Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train, 650,000 bpd capacity oil refinery, would have reached its peak production by now, and our fuel energy challenges might have considerably eased off. Though it was officially commissioned on May 22, 2023, seven days to the end of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime, the $20 […]
