Protecting the people from food poisoners
The report that some fruit vendors wash produce with detergent to make it sparkle is a very hazardous market trick. It is a betrayal of consumers who buy food for nourishment, and it demands investigation. Earlier Senate findings reported forced ripening with calcium carbide, detergent-washed produce, paracetamol added to meat, and banned Sudan IV dye […]
Why ‘repentant’ terrorists must be tried
WE have always advocated for the “stick and carrot” strategy to ensure a decisive, just and lasting end to the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency that has bedevilled our country in the past 12 years. Anything to the contrary – such as the adoption of the so-called Operation Safe Corridor, OSC, tactics – is a mere […]
Making PIA work for all (2)
INDEED, the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari is still an unfinished business, as the dissenting views continues to trail the enactment. Though it is said that “law is law” and must be complied with, a just and fair society always strives to carry the interests of all critical […]
Masari’s call for self-defence
THE call by Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, for residents of the state to take up arms and fight back against the rampaging “bandits” is not new. Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom and that of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, had earlier made the same call after federal-controlled armed forces, police and other […]
Celebrating General Babangida at 80
THAT General Ibrahim Babangida is a Nigerian living legend is beyond debate. Legends are not necessarily saints. They are people who leave footmarks that are the stuff of legends. Twenty-eight years after he left power, Babangida remains a relevant figure in Nigeria’s contemporary politics. He plotted for power and quit after exactly eight years (August […]
Too early for 2023 politics
IN the more advanced democracies, you only see electioneering activities just a few months to elections. The American presidential system is a little more elaborate, with its system of state-by-state primaries. Yet it does not fully wake up till about six months to the Election Day in November. Political leaders know the importance of spending […]
