UNDETERRED by disobliging officials, civil society organisations and activists are pressing forward in the crusade for probity in public office. In another push, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, among other CSOs, is demanding that […]
In late December 2019, an epidemic broke out in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China with devastating consequences to the lives of the people and the economy of the country. From the epicentre of […]
There is this legendary debate in the 100 level undergraduate philosophy class on the primacy of Egg and Chicken. The germane issue was the demand through academic research and rigorous mental exercise to uncover which […]
About 16 years ago, in my column in Vanguard newspapers, I called for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, still tottering in its infancy, to be shut down. My grouse and those of many Niger […]
In Nigeria, home and online schooling are fancy words like lasagna and cappuccino. It sounds exotic, looks expensive, but doesn’t taste like Jollof. You buy it because you’ve followed friends out, you’re seating in an […]
Covid-19 will hit Nigeria very hard; this is not uncommon with the experience of other countries. The pandemic, though a public health issue has significant economic impacts. For Nigeria, the channels of its impact include, […]
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie As a proud “Aba brought up”, […]
I imagine that someone would regard this headline as dramatic, even hyperbolic, and that would be totally understandable. Given the statistics of accomplishments that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 reels out during its daily […]
Madagascar has been touting a herbal therapy developed by its Malagasy Institute for Applied Research as a cure for COVID 19. Now bottled and labelled COVID-Organics, the therapy is said to be both curative and […]
COVID-19 has thundered through the world. We will speak of the pandemic for centuries to come. When children have their devices floating in the air as they waddle to school, and robots have replaced humans […]
BY MUKHTAR KAIGAMA Nigeria is the most populous black country in the world with over 200 million people and its population is on the rise. As projected by Census Bureau of the United States, Nigeria’s […]
Tayo Oke drtayooke@gmail.com The word, “palliative”, a nice medical terminology for the care of patients and their families with life-threatening illnesses has been in vogue of late. It has become rather overused in the last […]
No fewer than 27 foreign nationals, 17 of them Chinese, were arrested in Osun State recently while illegally exploiting gold. The furore was yet to die down when two other Chinese were apprehended for the […]
The closure of school nationwide has disrupted learning and access to vital school-provided services for a record number of students in Nigeria. On March 19, 2020, a circular from the Federal Ministry of Education granted […]
Lekan Sote lekansote@yahoo.com 08050220816 (SMS only) Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” is a protest book, written by Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, who later went into exile. It explores the relationship between the know-it-all European colonisers of […]
As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, corporate leaders and organisations are trying to adapt and innovate as much as possible. What leaders and organisations do now, and how they respond to the impact of COVID-19 […]
The spread of the coronavirus in Africa has exposed the precarious nature of many of its healthcare systems. I am writing this at a fraught time in the history of public healthcare on the continent. […]
By ‘Yinka Adeosun Forty years ago, smallpox became the only human disease to be eradicated globally, as the World Health Organisation certified its eradication in 1980. Caused by one of two variants of virus, the […]
GHOSTWORKERS: HOW DO THEY DO IT? I will just signpost here the different levels of sophistication in the ghost worker scam that has been with our country for years. First, definitions. The term “Ghost worker” […]
In the entire Benin Kingdom and other parts of Edo State, it is a taboo for a woman who is traditionally married to a man, to engage in extra-marital affairs with other men. It is […]
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