Issues/Policy
Articles by Omoniyi Osadare
Health
A New Surgery Can Give Legally Blind People 20/20 Vision | BusinessInsider
The CDC estimates that in 2010 alone, 2.5 million emergency room visits or deaths were associated with traumatic brain injury in the United States. This type of injury can cause severe damage to a patient’s […]
Technology
Apple warns customers about fake chargers and batteries
Apple has been on the warpath over fake accessories lately, and there’s no sign it’s letting up. Today, the company posted a sizeable warning on its support page over fake chargers and batteries, Amazon has […]
Technology
Turn your big-screen TV into an Android touchscreen with Touchjet Wave
The product clips onto the top of the television, and works on most big-screen TVs up to 65 inches in size with resolutions up to 4K. It basically puts an image of an Android device […]
Health
Why don’t humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know | TheGuardian
It can be as long as a finger in a monkey. In the walrus, it can be two feet long. But the human male has lost it completely. And researchers are a little stumped. Known […]
Business
MMM: LASEMA Sends Out Emergency Number As Suicide Fears increases
With up to three million Nigerians exposed to losses due to their “investment” in MMM, there are fears that the suicide rate in the country might rise. Following the collapse of MMM in Russia in […]
Politics
History Will Be Judge of My Time and Contributions In Office, By John Mahama
We believe that only one person can emerge as the winner. And while it is true that only one person can be elected president, in reality, and certainly in a democracy such as ours, every […]
Issues/Policy
Ondo: Time To Subvert the Dominant Paradigms, By Femi Odere
This advanced preparation for governance should be of utmost importance, if the subversion of the moribund, lethargic, unproductive self-conflicting and self-contradictory socio-economic paradigms that have rendered the state comatose, stale and inchoate must be accomplished […]
Business
Pharmaceutical Industry, National Development And A Fairer Society, Olu Akanmu
This generation of pharmacists and pharmaceutical industry managers face an historic task. This historic task is how to take advantage of the current challenges of economic recession, scarcity of forex for drugs and raw material […]
Religion
CAN To Churches: Avoid Holding Service In Uncompleted Buildings | TheNation
The national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has commiserated with the people and government of Akwa Ibom State on the tragedy that occured inside the Reigners Bible Church, Uyo at the weekend […]
Government
Nigeria To Allocate New Oil Licenses To Fund 2017 Budget
The Federal Government will issue new oil licences as part of efforts to explore new streams of revenues to fund the 2017 budget, an official has said. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma […]
Business
MMM Founder Writes Buhari, Says ‘You Know Nothing About Our System’ | TheCable
Sergey Mavrodi, founder of MMM, has written an open letter to the Nigerian government to justify the importance of the popular Ponzi scheme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the letter was displayed […]
Banking
FACT CHECK: Did Sanusi Get His Facts Wrong On CBN? | TheCable
Muhammad Sanusi II, the emir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently claimed that the CBN has been illegally funding the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. In his claims, Sanusi said […]
Issues/Policy
Ben Bruce: I Will Fight Buhari In 2019
Ben Murray-Bruce, the senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district at the national assembly, says he will fight President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 although the president currently retains his support. The founder of the Silverbird group […]
Issues/Policy
How Two Nigerians Drowned In Malaysia
Two Nigerian students have been found dead in a river in Tasik Taman Negara Loagan Bunut, Miri Malaysia. The students, Amate Mohamed Amate, 26 and Emine-Imoh Daniel, 23 had been reported missing when a boat […]
Issues/Policy
The Sanusi Speech By Babatunde Ajayi
Good day, Mr. Disu. I don’t know if you ever reviewed the presentation made by the Emir of Kano (H.M. Mohammed Sanusi II) which got both the CBN and the FG hopping mad. In case […]
Politics
Ghana 2016: The Art of Losing Elections, By Jibrin Ibrahim
The NPP campaign programme was effective but at the end of the day, Akufo-Addo did not win the elections, John Mahama lost it. Ghana’s electoral geography is well known and there are swing districts that […]
Education
JAMB Meets CBT Centre Owners Over 2017 Exams
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says arrangements have been concluded to have an interaction with owners of Computer Based Test centres in the country ahead of the 2017 UTME. The board’s Head, Media and […]
Nigeria
Nigeria: An Imperfect Balance Between the Useful and the Beautiful, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Ultimately, our bane as a country flows from the fact that the balance between the useful and the beautiful is so skewed in our decision-making models. But what is the meaning of exceptions like this […]
Issues/Policy
Clark Blasts S-South Govs Over Underdevelopment By Emma Amaize
GOVERNORS of the South-South region came under fire, weekend, as the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, said that the time had come for the people to hold them accountable for […]