Tribute
Olu Obafemi At 70 By Femi Osofisan
My friend, Olu Obafemi, turns 70 today. A joyous event, except that it has been shadowed by a cruel global pandemic called Covid-19, for which there is yet no cure. Most of the nation is […]
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News
COVID-19: Over 4,000 UK Citizens Seek Evacuation From Nigeria By Haleem Olatunji
Over 4,000 citizens of the United Kingdom have indicated interest in returning to their country amid the coronavirus pandemic. The British high commission in Nigeria broke the news in a tweet on Friday. This is […]
News
Soldiers Who Threatened To Rape Women In Warri Arrested In Lagos By Rita Okonoboh
The Nigerian Army says two officers who threatened to rape women in Delta state, and infect them with HIV, have been arrested. In a video that went viral earlier on Friday, the officers had threatened […]
News
Report: 55-Year-Old Man Who Failed To Disclose Travel History Dies of COVID-19 at LUTH By Ebunoluwa Olafusi
A 55-year-old man, who was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, has died of complications from COVID-19, according to PUNCH. The newspaper quoted a source as saying the patient died on Friday […]
Issues/Policy
Covid-P in Oran-Algeria: Lessons By Victor C. Ariole
Covid-P could have been an evidence of what ought to have been done that was left undone and still insist to be attended to so as to arrest self-inflicted human terror as weapons are deployed […]
Editorial
Punch: Reps Probing of Refineries’ TAM Scam
NIGERIA’S moribund refineries have purportedly gulped $396.33 million in the professed efforts by successive governments to fix them for optimal production. But vacuity in the desired result has provoked an inquest in the House of […]
Issues/Policy
Coronavirus: The Lockdown And After By Ayo Olukotun
Suddenly, and after a confusing lull, government at the centre stirred itself into a flurry of activities to step down and control the escalating spread of the dreaded COVID-19. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]
Issues/Policy
Medical Doctors As Guinea Pigs By Tony Afejuku
I am skipping today my promise to inform my readers of what the Living Spiritual Masters think of our current plight with respect to coronavirus, the deadly disease devastating the globe in a kind of […]
Issues/Policy
The Goodness of Good Friday By M. Omorovie Ikeke
The day on which Jesus died is marked as Good Friday by many Christians and others. It is a day in which Christians go to churches to offer special prayers and celebrate him. Christians remember […]
Issues/Policy
Living In Fear of Abba Kyari By Tunji Ajibade
Coronavirus outbreak happened and Nigeria’s health minister, Dr Osagie Enahire, began to hold press briefings. The purpose is to bring Nigerians up to speed regarding the outbreak. It’s also to give facts that render speculations […]
Issues/Policy
Pandemic Pandemonium: Watch What You Watch By Fola Ojo
Fola Ojo This is the new age of a pandemic pandemonium. COVID-19 has set the globe on bonfires. From New York to New Jersey; and from New Orleans to New Mexico; nothing is standing at […]
Religion
Stay At Home, Strengthen Family Bond, NASFAT Urges Nigerians By Shakirah Adunola
Nasrul Lahi-L-Fatih Society (NASFAT) has advised individuals to make productive use of the stay at the home policy to strengthen the family bond, observe prayer congregation with family members and read the holy Qur’an. The […]
Banking
Fidelity, Stanbic IBTC Join Other Nigerian Banks In Limiting Dollar Spending | TheCable
Fidelity Bank and Stanbic IBTC have joined counterparts, Zenith Bank and Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), in lowering dollar spending limit on debit cards. Fidelity Bank told customers that it would impose a new limit of […]
Aviation
COVID-19: Max Air Suspends Staff Salaries By Anu Alade-Williams
Max Air has suspended staff salaries following the federal government’s directive of a 14-day lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun to control the spread of COVID-19. The airline told its staff members, in a memo, […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): That Toxic Bill To Ban Generators
A recent private member bill in the National Assembly seeking to ban the importation and sale of generators in the country is vexatious, insensitive and anti-people and so should be withdrawn immediately. It beats the […]
Issues/Policy
COVID-19: Not A Death Sentence Afterall
By Tayo Ogunbiyi As things currently stand, all over the globe, the fear of Coronavirus a.k.a. COVID -19, is now the beginning of wisdom. Indeed, who will not fear a pandemic that has inflicted so […]
Issues/Policy
Women Who Love PMB By Femi Adesina
They are patriots who love their country dearly, and also love its President. Very dearly. To use the local parlance, ‘dem’ love President Muhammadu Buhari scatter. Through thick and thin, they have been with him, […]
Issues/Policy
General Olusegun Adeniyi: Is Nigeria Allergic To Truth? By Fredrick Nwabufo
Subterfuge. Propaganda. Lies. All have a date with truth. The truth is inexorable; it will always extinguish lies and propaganda. Nigeria’s ‘’successes’’ in the war against Boko Haram have been largely propaganda. Since 2015, when […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): Buhari, Resolve Electricity Privatisation Crisis
WITH yet another round of tariff increase looming, electricity consumers in Nigeria will have no choice but to brace themselves for harder times. This implies paying more for the usual lack of or irregular electricity […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): Police Use Of Firearms On Shiite Protesters
With no overriding push by the authorities to adopt global best practices in their engagements with the public, the police in Nigeria persist in their brutalities. In another repressive operation targeted at civil protesters in […]