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 […]
Our rising out-of-school numbers
IN June 2013, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, EAGMR, announced that Nigeria had become the country with the highest population of out-of-school children in the world with 10.5 million children. Other countries named in the report were: Pakistan 5.1m, Ethiopia 2.4m, India 2.3m, and others. […]
Our military and killing sprees
KILLINGS in Nigeria have taken on bewildering dimensions. Massacres of innocent Nigerians in their communities by jihadists, herdsmen and bandit terrorists aside, we are worried about the rising orgy of killings involving the military itself. The military are so cheaply killing and getting killed in the various theatres of conflict in our insecurity-riddled country. In […]
2023: Buhari’s non-interference pledge
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s repeated pledges not to “interfere” in the 2023 elections have been well received, especially if he will keep his word. In advanced democracies such as the USA, UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, Ghana and others, the direct involvement of the government in determining the outcomes of elections in which incumbent leaders are involved […]
Water Resources Bill, recipe for wars
THEY promised to bring it back. Now, they have made good their threat. This time, it is coming through Sada Soli Jibiya, the member representing Jibiya/Kaita Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. The odious “Water Resources” Bill is back and already ruffling feathers. This Bill was first introduced during the tenure of Yakubu Dogara […]
Probing ex-CJN Tanko Mohammed
CONTRARY to some opinions that the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, should be commended for “resigning honourably” on health grounds, we urge the National Assembly to press forward with its probe of his tenure. The public deserves to know the merits or otherwise of the allegations of corruption and incompetence […]
