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 […]
Call Danbazau, Kukasheka to question
IT is surprising that Nigerians have remained aloof to the sobering confession by retired Brigadier-General Sani Usman Kukasheka that he and former Army Chief, retired Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau, were asked by undisclosed unpatriotic elements to topple former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010. Kukasheka, who made this confession at a public lecture, named a former General […]
Gorbachev: Exit of a world changer
Some leaders and statesmen of the 20th Century gained their prominence or notoriety through aggression, conflicts, empire building and the defence of empires. Mikhail Gorbachev gained his through reforms of such extensive scopes that, unlike any other statesman of his class, changed the world for the better. He will be remembered as the man who […]
Rumpus over pipeline protection
THE government of President Muhammadu Buhari moves in mysterious ways. This it has demonstrated through its shifting attitudes to the security of our oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta. The Goodluck Jonathan administration had awarded contracts for the pipeline protection from oil thieves to repentant Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. But when Buhari’s […]
Buhari’s four unacceptable REC nominees
Since he reluctantly assented to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which allows the transmission of election results from the polling units after intense pressure, President Muhammadu Buhari has been assuring us of his willingness to allow the 2023 general elections to be free and fair. However, his habit of taking measures to tamper with the […]
FG’s 11th hour media hunt
The Muhammadu Buhari presidency has been the most media-unfriendly government since the return of our democracy in 1999. It has done everything possible to constrict the media and democratic space and deprive Nigerians of their right to free speech and media freedom as stipulated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended). […]
