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 […]
Double standard approach to dealing with insecurity
One of the reasons Nigeria may never succeed in solving her insecurity problems under the Muhammadu Buhari dispensation is that the security forces have been made to operate with double standards. Way back in 2015, the Global Terrorism Index, GTI, declared the militant Fulani herdsmen as the fourth most murderous terrorist group in the world […]
Nigeria’s abysmal power supply
MORE than six years into the “Change” mantra of the present administration, the World Bank has returned a damning report that Nigeria now ranks bottom – 171 out of 190 surveyed countries – in the access of its citizens to public power supply. Government, as usual, might issue a rebuttal of such reports by authoritative […]
Suspend Russian vaccine approval
ON Thursday, July 15, 2021, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, announced that it had approved the Russian Sputnik Vaccine for use in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria. The Agency’s Director- General, Mojisola Adeyeye, announced that NAFDAC subjected the vaccine to relevant scientific tests before approving it. […]
NDDC needs a total paradigm reset
THE governance of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, must be totally reset to enable it deliver its core mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Kudos for Electoral Offences Commission
The move to establish the Electoral Offences Commission is one of the redeeming features of the ongoing attempt to reform elections in Nigeria. On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, the Senate passed the “National Electoral Offences Bill 2021”. Our bicameral parliament is expected to agree on the relevant provisions of the Bill and forward it to […]
The Customs’ trillion Naira revenue question
THE Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has made a landmark achievement, reporting a sum of N1.003 trillion in the first half of the year 2021, H1’21. Going by regular trend in recent years, the figure will significantly surpass N2 trillion mark by year end. Already the H1’21 is about 63 percent of the full year 2020. […]
New Deal for our creative industry
THE good times may just be ahead for our long-suffering creative industry, as President Muhammadu Buhari has formally handed over the National Theatre Complex, Iganmu Lagos, to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Bankers Committee for restoration and redevelopment. According to the Governor of CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the scope of the intended […]
Travails of the el Zakzakys
AFTER over five and half years in the clutches of the military and security agencies, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (the Shiites), Sheikh Ibrahim el Zakzaky and his wife, Zinatu, breathed the air of freedom, courtesy of their acquittal by a Kaduna State High Court presided over by Justice Gideon Kurada. The […]
Benue: The forgotten herders’ killings fields
It is shocking that Nigerians have apparently lost interest in the daily carnage that the people of Benue State are experiencing at the hands of herdsmen terrorists. It is a sign of an unhealthy nation that these killings can be going on without firm reactions from the Nigerian populace. Once the terrorists succeed in subduing […]
Don’t abandon private sector educators
SOME of the critical sectors of our economy and society have been unfairly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, not just in Nigeria but all over the world. These are aviation and other aspects of commercial transportation, leisure (especially hotels), schools, religious activities and sports. These are sectors that involve a lot of movement and […]
