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 […]
Halting acts of lawlessness by herdsmen
APART from Boko Haram and the North West “Bandits”, armed herdsmen embedded in farmlands and forests all over the North Central and Southern parts of Nigeria constitute the biggest threats to our collective safety. Herdsmen, in times past, were harmless nomads who went about tending to their livestock. But since Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association […]
Justice for Deborah Samuel
A WEEK ago, Nigerians were thrown off the euphoric mode of partisan politics when a group of students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, lynched and burnt the body of Miss Deborah Samuel over alleged “blasphemy” of Islam and Prophet Muhammad, SAW. Not only that, hoodlums in Sokoto took to the streets, burning and […]
Terrorism still a growing threat in Nigeria
THE Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, ended his two-day official visit to Nigeria on May 3, 2022 with a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Villa. He had visited victims of terror – the Internally-Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Borno State, the epicentre of the Boko Haram jihadist terrorism. Guterres expressed […]
Jamborees galore, ASUU abandoned!
SOMETIMES, people at the helm of affairs portray Nigeria as an unserious and funny country. How else would one describe the ongoing political and impending Turkey jamborees while our children rust away at home due to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU? Shockingly, ministers who should be engaged in finding a […]
Do not criminalise ransom payment
Editorial WE call on the Senate to drop the Bill which seeks to criminalise the payment of ransoms by victims of kidnapping or their relations. This piece of legislation does not add much value in efforts to curb the crime. The Senate has already passed an amendment of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013 which prohibits […]
