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EDITORIAL
Nigeria and food importation
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:37
The Governor of Niger State, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, recently touched on an important aspect of nationhood which Nigeria has not taken seriously, especially in recent times, when he decried the reality of importation of food to feed Nigerians.
Nigeria continues to make itself the butt of many unpalatable jokes and render itself an incorrigible infant in the eyes of the world for both big and small things it gets itself dirtied by.
Nigerians woke up one day last week to find the news circulating through the web about the purported passing on of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State in an Indian hospital.
President Goodluck Jonathan had to cut short his state visit to South Africa and abort the planned one to Namibia in order to return home in the wake of big security challenges in the country. 
The judgement of the Abuja High Court on the propri-ety or otherwise of the revocation of the land earlier al-located at Abuja to the Women and Youth Empowerment Foun-dation (WAYEF), the pet project of Hajia Turai Yar'Adua while she was Nigeria's First Lady, has called attention, once again, to the obtuse ways things are done within the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and in the public service in Nigeria in general.
The current trouble of Governor Rotimi Amaechi with the aviation authorities in Nigeria with respect to the Bombardier jet owned by the Rivers State government has sent conflicting signals to the general public particularly as it has been somewhat difficult to separate the fact from the fiction.
