Fighting hunger with improved food preservation
Nigeria’s food crisis is not merely a failure to grow enough; it is also a failure to preserve what farmers produce. The reported 11-million-tonne requirement for cold storage, against less than 20,000 tonnes of long-term capacity, exposes a massive weakness in the food supply chain. The Organisation for Technology Advancement of Cold Chain in West […]
Need to prudently channel resources
IF our coronavirus battle was only a matter of speechmaking we would deck President Muhammadu Buhari in flying colours. For the third time in a row since he came into the picture of this pandemic, Buhari touched most of the right places during his Monday, April 27 national broadcast setting the date for a partial […]
Abule Ado: Kudos to LASG
THE government of Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State, has continued to project an image of responsible governance. While still demonstrating great capacity in the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in the nation’s epicentre of the pandemic outbreak, the governor did not forget the promise he made to victims of the blast that killed 23 […]
Umahi’s reckless display of impunity
MORE than 20 years after the end of military dictatorship in Nigeria, some uncouth political office holders have continued to display residual military mentality. They sometimes go out of their way to attempt the excesses that even the military did not. On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, the Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, made an […]
Kano’s mystery deaths and fake vaccines
JUXTAPOSED with our population, Nigeria’s Coronavirus numbers are among the smallest in Africa and the world at large. With 782 confirmed cases, 197 recoveries and 25 deaths as at Wednesday, April 22, 2020, a false sense of being on top of the pandemic might be difficult to shake off, especially among politically-minded elements in government. […]
Down with ‘feeding bottle’ mentality
THE responses of state governors to the Coronavirus pandemic seem to have fallen into two broad categories: those ready to take charge and those waiting, as usual, to be spoon-fed by the Federal Government before they do the needful in their states. It was in this pandemic that those who had doubted the leadership capacities […]
