Perspectives
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Regional commodity exchanges as the ultimate panacea to rural poverty and low agricultural productivity, By Taminu Yakubu
Nigeria has 75 million hectares of land for farming. Of these, only 44% or 33 million has been deployed into production with a yield hardly up to 20% of the average standard threshold. Nigeria has 1.2 million hectares for irrigation, with only 25% of it or 300,000 hectares under cultivation. The observed suboptimal output is certainly due to low productivity…
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Tinubu’s manifesto and the South-East, By Frederick Nwabufo
What is in it for us? When it comes down to brass tacks, this is the question tugging at the heart of zonal political interests in Nigeria. The national integrants think in favour of group interest and protection. How will this government preserve our interest? Will this government be fair to us? Will this government secure our rights and freedoms?…
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Oke – Koto water debacle and the question of the needful, By Olajide Shuaib
It’s no longer a news that the descension of the Pen cinema Agege flyover at Oke-Koto Agunbiade end is undergoing a repair work barely a year after its commissioning. Prior the repair work, driving through the area to Ikeja, Oshodi or Iyana Ipaja particularly in the outgoing rainy season became excruciating as a result of the large failed portions of…
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2023: Who are the Yoruba leaders? By Adewale Adeoye
I dont know if there is division in Afenifere But I watched Pa Fasoranti this evening on TV He said “Tinubu, O maa wo le” which means “Tinubu, you will win.” Chief Olu Falae spoke in the same vein. I guess Baba Fasoranti acted based on his conscience either rightly or wrongful. At the fullness of time in the coming…
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The Igbo insularity and it’s Yoruba wàhálà, By Chimaroke Nnamani
How did the Igbo get to this? Who sold this massive con job? Who are the snake oil salesmen? Why the perceived mistrust of the Yoruba? We never fought? Our properties were never seized? Our businesses thriving in their Homelands? Blossoming intermarriages with multiple offsprings? Common language etymology. They stayed out of Nigeria/Biafra war until the Benin expedition.Fajuyi died for…
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AbdulRazaq breaks jinx of water crisis in Kwara, 55 years after
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Water is life because no human being and even non-human being could survive without it. It’s so critical to every minute of human existence and has no alternative. Since Kwara State was created on 27th May 1967, efforts by every successive administration to provide portable water for the people came to naught Investigations revealed that the…
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Log in thine eyes, By Mahmud Jega
If the US government’s security agencies are so good at spotting terrorist attacks before they happen, how come they did not issue a terror alert in San Francisco last Friday when a man entered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home, shouting “Where is Nancy?” and then attacked her 82-year-old husband, Paul, with a hammer? Was the US State Department actually trying…
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Plight of Ekiti State pensioners, By Yemi Adebowale
The new Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, has promised to correct the ills and bad governance by past administrations in the state, while at the same time talking about continuity. Continuity of garbage? Oyebanji is obviously a confused person. The Ekiti State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Joel Akinola, rightly noted that the governor must be selective in…
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A Passage north, By Sam Omatseye
NO word or concept captures a political season like love. Yet, no word is more ignored. We brandish such nuggets as “connect,” “grassroots,” “network,” “structure,” “empower,” et al. But they all disguise what the Bible levitates as the queen of all virtues. Apostle Paul describes it as the fulfilling of the law. Jesus says it is the one quality by…
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Can Japa land Nigeria in Japan? By Simon Kolawole
If you spend too much time on social media, you would swear that emigration, also known as “japa”, is new and peculiar to Nigeria. No, it isn’t. “Japa”, a Yoruba slang that roughly means “to cut loose”. For four decades, Nigerians have been “cutting loose” for economic reasons. The current wave is reminiscent of the exodus of medical personnel to…
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