Thursday, May 14, 2020, will mark Leah Sharibu’s 17th year of existence on earth. By that day, she will also have gone deeper into her 3rd...
General Sani Abacha ruled Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. Following the June 12 presidential poll won by the late Lagos-based billionaire business mogul,...
Crisis equals opportunity. And difficult roads often lead to amazing destinations. Always? Sometimes? Brutus to Cassius in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare put it succinctly: ’’There...
Nigeria’s decision to ‘unwind’ the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in the capital, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States refers. As we strive to “balance the need to...
A society which eats, debases and abuses its young is a coven run by witches. The almajiri children are innocents socialised into a culture and system...
This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any...
On 17th April, 2020, my world came crashing down and my heart shattered into a billion pieces. Upon receiving the news of my father’s passing, I...
The recent drama displayed by the Oyo State Government and Nigerian Custom Service (NCS) on 1800 bags of rice donated by the federal government as palliative...
“Africa needs stronger communities and stronger institutions I.e that is stronger people” Observation Every challenge facing human being in every part of the world has the...
Mallam Abba Kyari, the former Chief-of-Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, died few weeks ago in a Lagos hospital of Coronavirus. He was hurriedly buried without pomp...
The economic fallout from the coronavirus may present the best, most pressing case for revising the CBN’s high interest rate policy. The undue rates penalise domestic...
Sometimes most people of Goodwill, regardless of color, wonder how rugged and durable Africans survived all the impediments and odds they face daily. Even in their...
In recent times, Professor Wole Soyinka (WS) has been at the receiving end of arrows from those who hate his guts and his intellect. Those who...
So, I watched the video of the high profile Chief Executive as he tried ever so passionately to justify his latest gambit. As he spoke, I...
In the corporate world, it is traditional to write handover note and hand same over to your successor in office. This practice is more prominent in...
Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is giving humanity its toughest challenge since 1918 – when influenza killed more people than during World War I. Since its outbreak late...
Any objective analysis of a long-winded essay, “COVID-19: Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?”, by Chukwuma Soludo, would wonder if the renowned economist is suddenly cast with a...
You have possibly watched the 1998 action-thriller film with the above title, starring Will Smith. It was the box office hit story about a group of...
Apart from the great reform brought by COVID-19 to the health sector in Nigeria, one of the other areas that seems to have witnessed the wind...
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Kenneth Levine “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that...
Like the late Mallam Abba Kyari, Vital Kamerhe is the Chief-of-Staff to President Felix Tshisekedi of Congo-Kinshasa. Few weeks ago CoS Kamerhe was arrested and interrogated...
Hate speech and fake news appear to be the exclusive preserve of religious and political leaders. This class can spread poison in statements, commentaries and homilies...
These are times when knowledge is agony, a weariness to the spirit, soul and body. And ignorance is bliss. But first, let me congratulate the people...
The global economy is in a tailspin. IMF and the World Bank have both predicted a contraction of the global economy with developing economies likely to...
The strides that our country has made in the fight to end malaria could understandably be overlooked against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps more...
And it came to pass that on the 22nd day of the fourth month in the year 2020 in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Dave...
The death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has elicited a great deal of controversy, but the posterity demands that...
If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer...
Can Africa really afford lockdowns, and can they be effective? Put differently, given the social and economic circumstances of Africa and the impending ‘economic pandemic’, can...
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not...
Following the tragic passing of the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, last weekend, tributes had been coming in torrents from power...
The formation of an Israeli coalition government led by Netanyahu and Gantz, the leaders of Likud and Kahol Lavan respectively, will finally put an end to...
Nigeria is an impoverished country. In fact, the country has never been rich – in the economic sense of the word. The assumptions of wealth have...
In human history, the raging Corona Virus (Covid-19) pandemic, will undoubtedly remain one of the tragic incidents that has befallen the earth. Barely five months when...
“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependents. If people cannot eat, they will not...
I try to be very factual in my submissions to public discourse. It is now a known fact that we all can be very emotive in...
‘’History is not without examples of entire nation or civilisation having perished, because they know not and seized not the critical moment for the solution of...
He played in the background so well. Abba Kyari was the mystery of the presidential villa. Unobtrusive and self-effacing, yet his influence was palpable beyond the...
“The evil that men do live after them.” — William Shakespare I am aware that this is breaking with the conventional wisdom. I am conscious that...
To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari’s death would be to tell a lie. Being an asthmatic patient who routinely had “breathing problems” that necessitated...
We are all living dangerously in a deadly season of Coronavirus. With international and national borders closed, schools shut, businesses shattered, peoples confined and social distancing,...
The proxy war that Saudi Arabia and Iran have been waging in Yemen for the past five years goes beyond the pale of human capacity for...
Some Africans have forgotten how to grow their own food. There used to be a time most Africans could not starve in the villages unless you...
Corona virus disease has continued to dominate discussions world over in the media, at home and sundry other places and we may not stop talking about...
Since the beginning of this year, the world attention is on Corona Virus Disease 2019 otherwise known as COVID-19. What is said to have originated in...
Whenever man is confronted with a terrifying aspect of the world in which he lives, his natural instinct is to seek to understand the new phenomenon...
The novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) is ravaging the earth as economic and social restriction continues with no end in sight. As of April 14, Covid-19 has infected...
Journalism in Nigeria is on the decline, and its credibility is steadily being destroyed. The solution lies in the hands of practitioners. They can reverse the...
The conundrum: Do we sustain the lockdown to contain coronavirus and risk the upsurge of insecurity and citizens’ unrest or do we lift the restrictions and...
It is no longer news that the myth of coronvirus has gone behind Nigeria, as the State and Federal Governments continue to advocate social distancing, self...
