Nigeria’s fertiliser use shortfall
Nigeria’s fertiliser paradox is becoming harder to ignore. The country now possesses fertiliser production capacity, yet farmers are applying nowhere near enough nutrients to unlock its agricultural potential. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security says national fertiliser consumption is about 18.6 kilogrammes per hectare, against the 50kg/ha benchmark associated with the 2006 Abuja […]
NUPRC and Host Communities’ fund
More annoying to the host communities is the NUPRC and oil companies’ demand that the Host Community Development Trusts, HCDTs, should hire lawyers and chartered accountants of at least 10 years experience from the oil companies’ three per cent remittances.
Decongestion of custodial centres
We need an emergency measure, with the target of cutting the number of awaiting trial inmates to more than half of their current population.
False narratives about Abuja’s status
Where the likes of Gumi got their confusion from is probably the fact that between 1979 that Adeogun left office and 2023, all the 14 ministers appointed by successive regimes were all Northerners.
What future for our democracy?
LAST week Thursday, October 26, 2023, marked the formal end of our 2023 general elections. Though many election petition tribunals are still at work at the state level and in respect of some National and State Assembly cases, the confirmation of President Bola Tinubu’s victory by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court ended the […]
Nigeria’s victory in P&ID case
Nigerians are basking in the euphoria of a significant victory in the celebrated arbitration case instituted against us by controversial Process and Industrial Development, P&ID, a firm registered in the British Virgin Islands and owned by two Irish nationals, the late Michael Quinn and Brendan Carroll. On Monday, October 23, 2023, the Business and Property Court […]
