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 […]
Rehabilitation of Deborah Samuel’s family
When a group of Islamic extremists mobbed and burnt Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto over the alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed, the nation was agog with mixed reactions. While some extremists remained unrepentant about the fate that befell her, Christians and other people of conscience condemned the […]
Violation of Owo massacre crime scene
PERHAPS for the first time ever, suspected terrorists have attacked a place of worship in the Southern part of Nigeria. Since the August 6, 2018 attack on St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Anambra State was later linked to an alleged drug war, the manner in which the gun attack on St. Francis Catholic Church […]
Publish the NDDC probe reports now
THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is easily one of the most corrupt organs of the Federal Government. Established on June 5, 2000 by the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime, it was meant to be a special intervention to assuage the militant agitations through rapid development and engagement with stakeholders in the oil-producing communities. Responding to […]
Danbazzau’s arms mop-up call
THE call by a former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of the Interior, retired Lt-General Abdulrahman Danbazzau, for a comprehensive mop-up of arms and drugs from among the Fulani pastoralists calls for serious attention. Danbazzau was one of the guests at the recent Pastoralist and Fulbe Security Conference organised by the Miyetti Allah Cattle […]
Okada ban in Lagos: It’s D-Day!
THE “total enforcement” of the ban of commercial motorcycles in specified parts of the Lagos City-State goes into effect today, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. These cover six local government areas, LGAs, and nine local council development areas, LCDAs, in Eti Osa, Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland and Apapa. It also includes the city’s trunk […]
