Though Nigeria may have moved up five steps in the World Press Freedom ranking, 115 among 180 countries, communication experts believe there are still more to be done. According to Reporters Without Borders (RWB), Nigeria […]
A widely reported mistreatment of Africans in China, as indicated by, among other evidence pieces, recent video releases in the social media, is most unacceptable. It must stop forthwith. The recent incident in Guangzhou that […]
The Niger government on Tuesday announced ban on night travels from 6 p.m to 7 a.m. as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. A statement by […]
Angst has replaced the initial elation that greeted an agreement with the United States to release another $308 million tranche of the Abacha loot. The transfer has become enmeshed in scandal. Amid unconvincing denials by […]
SELF-inflicted disasters are taking a hefty toll on lives and livelihoods in Nigeria. In this respect, two separate infernos recently wreaked havoc at petrol filling stations in the Ogba and Obalende neighbourhoods in Lagos. The […]
Tayo Oke drtayooke@gmail.com The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Emeka Nwajiuba, made it emphatically clear on April 28, in Abuja, that: “There is no date yet for schools to resume”. He stuck to that […]
Last week, with Nigeria recording about 2,000 cases of COVID-19, the Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, lamented that they might start treating COVID-19 patients at home because of shortage of […]
What is poverty? Pause. Think really well about the question. Take a hard long look at Nigeria and repeat the question to yourself; what is poverty? Do you know poverty? Have you seen poverty? Does […]
The world football governing body (FIFA), the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and football greats on Monday paid tributes to Rashidi Yekini, eight years after his death. Yekini, who died on May 4, 2012 at the […]
Chikwe Ihekweazu, the director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says the easing of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory (FCT) was not a mistake. After five weeks under […]
If you are a non-indigene of Nnewi but want to be loved exceedingly in Nnewi, buy a parcel of land and start a company that employs people. The moment you do that, the message you […]
This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Coronavirus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since […]
Since the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic on 11 March, the mantra has been to tell us to maintain some “social distancing” to avoid being infected. On 20 March, WHO dropped […]
The decision to ease the lockdown is obviously more political than realistic and scientific. The economic reasons adduced for proposed easing of the lockdown are purely political excuses that do not explain much. It should […]
If history teaches anything, it is that in our present conditions, the toll from a second wave of infections will hurt more than that from the first one. Votaries of even a religion as secular […]
It seems the Lagos State government is gradually passing its own test. Other state governments must rise to the occasion. To Governor Ganduje: Duty calls. Thou shall not live by dollars alone. The governor of […]
As our prime minister, Boris Johnson, said at the conference today: “The race to discover the vaccine to defeat this virus is not a competition between countries, but the most urgent shared endeavour of our […]
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 immediately felt the most excruciating pain – a pain […]
Nigeria is ailing and it is difficult not to be worried. The global economic shock occasioned by COVID-19 has finally dealt a huge blow on Nigeria’s economy that has before now been on life support. […]
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has decried the level of non-compliance with directives of the partial lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states. President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier announced the gradual easing of […]
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