Helping our poultry farmers’ needs
Nigeria’s poultry industry is at a dangerous crossroads. The recent call for reforms is therefore more than an industry lobby. It is a warning about food security, nutrition, jobs and the wider economy. An industry capable of supplying affordable eggs and chicken is being strangled by expensive and unreliable inputs. Feed, which can account for […]
National Assembly’s pro-democracy acts
THE Senate and the House of Representatives now appear more pro-people in some of their recent actions. The big, pleasant surprise came from the Senate whose President, Ahmed Lawan, had acted as an unapologetic rubberstamp of the Presidency. The Senate’s recent indictment of the Police, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes […]
Rehabilitating a broken Earth
THE President of the European Union, Charles Michel, correctly captured the relationship between humans and the planet Earth which is our home. He said at the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, that we have been at war with nature, and it is time for the war to stop to enable us rehabilitate the Earth […]
Insecurity not declining, Mr President
IT is said that if a candidate is allowed to mark his own examination papers, he will give himself straight “A’s”. Politicians are fond of giving themselves pass marks no matter how abysmal their performance is. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is fond of making sweeping promises is also very adept at giving himself unmerited praise […]
Tackling our wrong beliefs in money rituals
UNKNOWN to many Nigerians, there is a greater evil silently ravaging the country now than the prevailing insecurity – the killing of innocent people, including family members, for money rituals. Why are cases of this scourge rising every day? How did we get here, and what are the solutions? Only recently (and it has almost […]
Avoiding another shutdown of varsities
UNLESS sanity prevails, the nation might be plunged into another round of strikes by university staff unions, the second this year. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, after waiting in vain for nine months for the Federal Government to fulfill its agreements with the Union, has served a three-week strike notice. Also, the Joint […]
