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 […]
Give traditional rulers a role
IT was probably more than a coincidence that President Bola Tinubu met a cross-section of Nigeria’s traditional rulers within the first ten days of his administration. The meeting was a reminder of the age-old call for constitutional roles for traditional rulers in Nigeria. What we have now is a loose arrangement whereby the various states […]
Against Emefiele’s continued detention
We join other well-meaning Nigerians to express our disgust over the maltreatments being meted to the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Security Services, DSS. The Service and the Governor went head to head following efforts by the former to arrest and interrogate Emefiele […]
Ship burning is oil theft collusion
There may be some element of certitude in the brazen allegation by controversial Dokubo Asari that elements in the Nigerian Army and Navy are involved in the large-scale oil theft in the Niger Delta which directly attacks our main source of foreign exchange earnings. The continued burning of vessels by our security forces in collusion […]
Palliative: No to “cash transfer”
Nigerians are delighted that President Bola Tinubu is set to roll out some relief measures to cushion the biting effects of the implementation of petrol subsidy removal. But we are firmly opposed to his resort to the discredited “cash transfer” approach. The President said: “The palliative is coming. I don’t want cash transfer to fall […]
Preserving Senegal’s sterling democracy
The people of Senegal have once again shown their resolve to preserve the sanctity of their democracy. For the second time in 11 years, the people came out en masse, braving the bullets of the security forces to truncate the unpatriotic tenure elongation ambitions of their leaders. In 2012, the people had also trooped onto […]
