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IBB Memoir: Is the Cat Getting Out of the Bag?  I love reading biographies, but I love autobiographies the most for obvious reasons—an actor shares his perspective on his actions, inactions, and covert and overt situations. However, the risk of reading autobiographies lies in the potential for biased opinions, sugar-coated narratives, and historical distortions. I have not read the 420-page …

The first part of this piece was published in this column on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. At that time, I only knew Yayale through newspapers and news media. Nevertheless, I wrote about his responsibilities, background, risks, and potential challenges related to his assignment. This assignment involves two demanding tasks: leading the government delegation to resolve the over-a-decade-long FGN-ASUU crisis and …

The Beauty of China, its People, and Accentuated Lessons My perception of China has been a mixture of admiration, envy, and respect. Admiration—here are people constituting 17.2 percent of the world’s population, living in peace and tranquillity and assiduously working to conquer the world’s economy and friendship. Envy – a high level of discipline, orderliness, hard work, and societal regimentation …

Chinese Insatiable Desire to Mechanize African Agriculture, Nay Nigeria In February 2024, a Nigerian-based Chinese agricultural machinery and equipment company, Chinese Technology Services Limited, invited me to speak as the keynote speaker at a high-level agricultural mechanization sensitization workshop for policymakers and managers of agricultural institutions. I used the NAERLS results of the 2023 wet-season agricultural performance survey (APS) to …

Smart Farming: A Pathway for Food Security in Nigeria II This week’s article is a corollary to my November 13, 2024 article, in which I promised to continue discussing Smart Farming, an innovative way of increasing agricultural productivity to enhance food security. The article highlighted the urgent need for Nigeria to quadruple its food production to meet the domestic demand …

Franco-Nigerian Summit. By M.K. Ilyasu   The political debate in Nigeria is increasingly focused on whether to engage France or isolate it. The aim here has been to offer a framework for getting beyond a conundrum that is paralysing the currency of the debate. My aim, in this regard is to encourage a different way of thinking about how the …

North West Dev Commission and Other Issues: Who Will Save the Region? Northwestern Nigeria, the veritable location of Katsina—Kano—Kaduna, aka KKK, the brain and heartbeat of Nigeria’s politics, is in disarray. It is at a ferocious war with itself and external forces and direly needs salvation. The twin forces of insecurity and nepotism are massively churning out poverty, unemployment, healthcare …

Readers Comments Writing, like singing, is a creative art; you must be in the mood to write or sing better. Being in the mood does not mean being joyful; it can also be sorrowful, something to provoke creativity. Thank God, I am not writing to earn a living but a deep-rooted hobby with a passion for serving humanity through enlightenment. …

Smart Farming: SAA-KNARDA-KSADP Model for Food Security in Nigeria Partly as an analogy to last week’s article on smart farming as a pathway to food security in Nigeria and partly as a digression, it is expedient to discuss the Sasakawa-KNARDA-KSADP model. This model demonstrates that achieving food security in Nigeria does not require rocket science but rather our leaders’ political …

Smart Farming: A Pathway For Food Security In Nigeria By Prof. M. K. Othman   The world population in 2024 is slightly less than 8.2 billion from the population of 2.5 billion in 1952, a wolfing increase of 5.7 billion people over 72 years. This analysis is made from the information obtained from Worldmeters (http://www.worldometers.info/). The Worldometers is one of …