The announcement, on Monday, 8 July 2024, by the Federal Government granting approval of a 150-day duty-free import window for food commodities into Nigeria to tackle rising inflation which had impoverished many Nigerians, was inevitable. This intervention shows a wall of difference between the leadership of President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who had thick skin to citizens’ …

It is no elephant project and the expectations of Lagosians will not be cut short, especially at this challenging time that the country is facing a hard biting food inflation but it is also pertinent to tell Lagosians that a forward looking leadership that they gave their mandate to is surging on  with an enduring solution to food insecurity by creating a …

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb This is a popular saying from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Many times, these days, I feel like that old woman in the saying, especially when I see skits where food is wasted and there are too many of them now. I don’t find them funny. …

As governments at all levels intensify efforts to halt the current food crisis, Katsina State Governor Dikko Radda has signed into law an executive order to check food scarcity and prohibit hoarding of food and other essential commodities in the state. His Nasarawa State counterpart, Abdullahi Sule, said in Lafia yesterday that his recent interaction with marketers on food hoarding …