The National Identity Management Commission says it has enrolled and issued 41 million Nigerians with National Identity Number as of today. The Director-General at the NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, in an interview with journalists, said enrolment […]
azonwuka@yahoo.com0809-8727-263 (sms only) Phrasal verbs can be confusing. Many writers, including some Nigerian newspapers, do not know when to separate words like these or write them together. It is usually embarrassing to see a top […]
The United Nations’ health experts have warned of a looming global health crisis as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the ravaging coronavirus […]
FACED with the task of devising the most effective strategy to curtail the coronavirus outbreak, some state governors are choosing pious platitudes over straightforward scientific choices. All over the country, governors are competing to outdo […]
This week, the world celebrates Mental Health Awareness Week and amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, it means that individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions such as anxiety, mood and substance abuse disorders are likely […]
Tayo Oke (drtayooke@gmail.com) The announcement of Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the Chief of Staff to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a couple of weeks ago generated a lot of heated discussions in […]
Twenty-four hours to the trip, Otos, a worker at one of the bus terminals in the Jibowu area of Yaba, Lagos, had given all the assurances that there is commercial transportation to Abuja, and, in […]
Dorcas Jolayemi, wife of the broadcaster detained for criticising Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the police kept her in custody for eight days. Rotimi Jolayemi, her husband, had recorded an eight-minute audio […]
Let me tell you a short story: In the early 2000s, there used to be a lot of accidents in the Ojoo end of the Lagos-Ibadan-Oyo expressway. Virtually every weekend, accidents occurred in this particular […]
Ishaq Akintola, director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), says governors who allowed congregational Eid prayers committed impeachable offences. On Sunday, congregational prayers held in different states while some religious faithful openly flouted guidelines issued by […]
Oil palm can fetch Nigeria as much revenue as the crude oil can, so said the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. But self-inflicted challenges that de-ranked the country from the […]
The Federal Government the other day pledged to support the aviation sector with bailout funds to cushion the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The move is consistent with global practice and so it is […]
There is some truth in conforming with the norm. Many idiomatic expressions connote the conventional as the normal. Statements like, “Don’t be an oddball,” “If you can’t beat them join them” are clear indications of […]
It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since […]
It is obviously a case of the more you look and inquire, the less you see and understand. We refer to the issue of the mystery N4.3 billion reportedly belonging to the Ondo State government […]
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu’s display, on Tuesday, of a total lack of understanding of the true meaning and categorisation of ‘essential duty workers’ must have surprised many Nigerians, especially at a time the […]
To the above poser, politicians who are using falsified figures to milk Nigeria will answer in the affirmative. But the contrary is the case if authentic census figures could be obtained. Nigeria population is not […]
There is an urgent need for Africa to develop new forms of resilience. In a world in which multilateralism is sorely tested, Africa must stop expecting solutions from others. Africa should no longer be satisfied […]
How did we, within a space of about thirty or so years, degenerate from a people of high moral values to that of unimaginable moral decadence? Who would have imagined that a woman in the […]
The current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic is a test from Allah and, having fasted as we are enjoined as Muslims, let us continue to remember that it is part of our faith to protect […]
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