News
Bill Gate’s Views On Coronavirus
What is the Covid-19 virus really teaching us? I’m a strong believer that there is a spiritual purpose behind everything that happens, whether that is what we perceive as being good or being bad. As […]
Year: 2020
News
Guardian (NG): Atiku Reacts To Abba Kyari Testing Positive For Cornonavirus
Nigeria former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff Abba Kyari testing positive for coronavirus. Multiple media reports Tuesday alleged that Kyari tested positive several days after returning from […]
MEDIA
IPC, Others Seek Protection of Journalists, Urge Caution In Reporting Coronavirus By Margaret Mwantok
The International Press Centre (IPC) has called on media proprietors to provide journalists covering the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria with necessary protective gadgets and medications required. The Executive Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, said […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): The Senate and Certificates For High Offices
A recent report that the Senate is considering a bill to raise the academic qualifications required of candidates for the president, governor and legislators at the federal and state assemblies should not be ignored by […]
Issues/Policy
Nigerians Shortchanged With Fuel Price Slash By Kingsley Jeremiah
For pegging the pump price of petrol at N125 per litre, the Federal Government would be shortchanging Nigerians to the tune of N3.3 billion daily on the 55 million litres of the product consumed everyday […]
News
Oyedepo Begs Ogun Govt For Flouting Ban On Large Gathering`
Bishop David Oyedepo, President Living Faith Worldwide, has apologised to the Ogun State Government for flouting its order on large gatherings in view of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of worshippers thronged the Living […]
Issues/Policy
Remedying Africa’s Leadership Vision Deficit By Fatai O. Badmus
Why does the continent defy the laws of physics? Since the late 17th Century, inferences from Sir Isaac Newton’s expositions on the motions of bodies tiny and large have helped humankind to understand some of […]
Issues/Policy
A Day With Bereaved Folks In Uwheru By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
So it was that we, members of Urhobo Renaissance Society (URS), a pan-Urhobo socio-cultural organisation dedicated to the upliftment of the Urhobo people, made up of professionals, academics, businessmen and some other patriots, paid a […]
Tribute
A Celebration of Olawale Oshun at 70 By Olumuyiwa Runsewe
Growing up at Oke-Bola Ibadan, behind the famous Ibadan Boys High School and Papa Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s House, and even attending the Primary School section of that School, exposed me to many generations of their […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): Buhari’s Strange Leadership In COVID-19 Crisis
Many states have begun to shut down in efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease that has, at last, found its way to Nigeria, sending jitters across the length and breadth of […]
News
COVID-19: Avoid Social Visits To Stations, Don’t Make Unnecessary Arrests, IGP Cautions Nigerians, Officers
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, cautioned Nigerians to avoid social visits to police stations across Nigeria. This is just as he warned officers to avoid “unnecessary arrests and detention of suspects.” The statement, […]
Government
Coronavirus: LASG Shuts Down Civil Service For 2 Wks
By Kingsley Omonobi, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Sam Eyoboka, Omeiza Ajayi & Joseph Erunke As part of efforts to stem the spread of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, ordered the state’s […]
News
S O C I A L D I S T A N C I N G: How One Wedding Guest Infected 44 Uruguayans
Why is social distancing important in containing the coronavirus pandemic? More than half of those that have been infected in Uruguay had contact with a woman who attended a wedding after contracting the virus in […]
Government
COVID 19: Lagos State Ministry of Transportation Press Statement
COVID 19: Public transport preventive measures guidelines to curb further spread of corona virus in buses, cabs, motor parks and garages. As part of the efforts by the Lagos State Government to further prevent a […]
Issues/Policy
China To Lagos, The Frightening Timeline of a Deadly Virus By Olusegun Fafore
Fatality rate across the globe since the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Chinese town of Wuhan on December 31, 2019 has signalled that this is not the best of times for humanity. With about […]
Issues/Policy
Coronavirus: How We Cope With Lock Down of London By Funmi Peter-Omale
Covid-19. Coronavirus. nConV-19. Different names for the same virus, that is changing lives as we know it in this generation. The fear of its global pandemic has gripped everyone all over the world, governments and […]
Issues/Policy
Budget Cut And The Economy By Eze Onyekpere
censoj@gmail.com; 08127235995 Following the plunge in crude oil price, the Federal Government last week announced a decision to cut capital expenditure in the 2020 federal budget by 20 per cent and the recurrent expenditure by […]
Editorial
Punch: States Should Take Responsibility For Almajiri Crisis
A Senate advocacy for the Federal Government to build more almajiri schools and integrate the existing ones into the country’s modern school system is a bizarre and wasteful undertaking, unworthy of any national attention. The […]
Issues/Policy
A Destiny Among The Nations (1) By Obadiah Mailafia
I am delighted to be Guest Speaker at this colloquium to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Honourable Kudla Satumari and the great humanitarian work he has been doing with his Haske Foundation. The people […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari, Gbajabiamila And The Greedy Bats By Tunde Odesola
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) Sight, the king of the five senses, is superior to touch, taste, hearing and smell. But sight is inferior to insight. I contemplated this truth last week when I interrogated the essence […]