Nigeria’s fertiliser use shortfall
Nigeria’s fertiliser paradox is becoming harder to ignore. The country now possesses fertiliser production capacity, yet farmers are applying nowhere near enough nutrients to unlock its agricultural potential. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security says national fertiliser consumption is about 18.6 kilogrammes per hectare, against the 50kg/ha benchmark associated with the 2006 Abuja […]
Keeping Nigeria’s best brains in the country
WHILE we rejoice at the “good news” of the British Government’s approval of work permits for Nigerian international students who wish to work in Britain after the completion of a UK degree at bachelor’s degree level or above, we must also consider the disadvantage – brain drain. For 2020 alone, out of 13, 000 young […]
Nigerians need more than food from G7 nations
NIGERIANS are grateful that the G7 group of nations, an inter-governmental organisation made up of the world’s largest developed economies – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada – has appropriated $382 million (N180 billion) to combat the worsening food crisis and famine in Boko Haram-ravaged North-East Nigeria. The project, tagged […]
Insecurity: Another case for state police
THE Department of State Services, DSS, in a recent joint security operation, raided the Ibadan residence of Yoruba self-determination agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. The raid, according to the DSS, resulted in a gun battle which led to the death of two of Igboho’s men, arrest of 13 persons and discovery of a cache […]
Halt Odebunmi’s toxic Media Bills
SEVERAL credible mainstream media houses have been warning of the havoc that Olusegun Odebunmi’s Nigerian Press Council, NPC, and National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, amendment Bills will wreak on the media industry and our constitutional democracy if they sail through. He will succeed in achieving the total subjugation of the highly reputed vibrant and independent Nigerian […]
PIB’s vexatious 30% frontier fund
NIGERIA’s general incompetence in managing its diversity has been at play in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saga. Thirteen years after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua introduced it as a follow-up to his efforts to douse militancy in the Niger Delta, a second attempt at making it into law has exhibited a total miscarriage of […]
