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 […]
The lesson we must learn from our past
AS the year rolls to an end, it is important for us, both as individuals and as a country, to look back, down the road we have travelled and take stocks. As a country, we are bleeding on all fronts. Our history is stained with blood, strewn with the debris of our mistakes and regrets. […]
Avoiding death from frequent power surge
THERE is no doubt that Nigerians are now buffeted from all flanks. Wherever the people turn to, avoidable death lurks in the corner. For instance, if one was lucky to escape from the criminals prowling the land, or from trigger-happy men in uniforms, one may not be so lucky with containers falling from articulated vehicles, […]
More than a dancing Governor
KNOWN as the dancing senator, and now sworn in as governor of Osun State, some people, especially on the social media, have advised Ademola Adeleke to leave dancing and get serious with governing Osun and improving the economic condition of the ninth smallest state in area and nineteenth most populous with an estimated population of […]
Jesus, reason for the season of love
GIVEN that Jesus Christ, the Biblically-acclaimed saviour of mankind, is the reason for the annual season of Christmas that climaxes this year on Sunday, December 25, 2022, humanity must not lose sight of the fact that love is the overriding attribute of the person whose birth in the world is being celebrated. Christ’s abundant love […]
Buhari’s opportunity to write name in gold
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s indirect admission in faraway Washington DC of how difficult it has been administering Nigeria in the face of numerous challenges confronting the country is both sobering and instructive for all Nigerians, especially for the electorate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The President, whose supporters had always either spuriously claimed he had […]
