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 […]
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 […]
Monitoring campaign misconduct
ON September 28, 2022, the campaigns for the elections formally went into full swing, according to the timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Already, some of the serious 18 registered political parties have flagged off their campaigns. We are, however, disturbed at the use of unprintable words by some political parties and candidates […]
Clogs in the wheels of justice
FOR the umpteenth time, our judicial officers are lamenting the deluge of cases pending before our courts, the gross inadequacy of judges and lack of needed financial resources to dispose the cases. The latest outcry came recently from the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, who disclosed that some judges have […]
The UN biodiversity summit and us
THE 15th session of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP15, which began December 7 and ends today December 19, 2022, in Montreal, Canada, is a continuation of the quest by the caring world to halt the ongoing rapid loss of earth’s diverse plant and animal life, called biodiversity – the sum of all living things […]
