ACCUSTOMED to crude display of power, President Donald Trump has frozen the United States’ funding of the World Health Organisation amid the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the entire world. His grouse with the agency is that […]
This is the second time we have commented on Nigerians’ curious defiance of the lockdown order to prevent transmission of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down the whole world. It is curious that […]
AS the COVID-19-induced lockdown bites harder worldwide, countries are grappling with knotty options on the benefits and hazards of rolling back restrictions. Despite misgivings by health professionals and leaders fearful of the unknown, pressure is […]
A resignation offers the other day by Turkey’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, shows an individual with a strong personal character in a system that values honour and integrity. These virtues […]
It’s been six years and some days since the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted in Borno State by terrorists. Indeed, it has been six years of tireless campaigns for their freedom amid promises to bring the […]
The implementation of the Federal Government’s social investment programme (SIP) has come under serious criticisms in recent times. The programme, which was articulated in the government’s strategic implementation plan that preceded the 2016 “budget of […]
The United States still smarting from the welter of the coronavirus pandemic announced its withdrawal of funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a move that was hardly surprising but viewed as a bit […]
WITH the authorities preoccupied with curtailing the novel coronavirus pandemic, criminals have been quick to exploit the opportunity to engage in criminal activities. All over, criminal gangs and hoodlums, in a coordinated manner, are unleashing […]
These are unusual times. Social distancing is the norm and is commonsensical to avoid contracting the Coronavirus and avoid its domino effect on the population. The disease is a pandemic hitting hard even the most […]
The return of traffic in some parts of Lagos and major highways despite the lockdown order on the city as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is worrisome and unfortunate in the extreme. It […]
On Sunday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced immediate debt relief for 25 countries — 19 of them in Africa. Nigeria was not on that list because the west African giant does not owe the […]
Since late February when a certain Italian suspected to be infected with the dreaded Coronavirus arrived in Nigeria through the international airport in Lagos, concern for public health has been national with the states and […]
INCREDIBLY, today marks six years of the Chibok schoolgirls’ embarrassing abduction by Boko Haram jihadists from a territory then under a state of emergency. It is a grim milestone their families, Nigerians and humanity never […]
NIGERIA’S aspiration to turn in a bright outing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games might have received a boost from unexpected quarters. Shortly before preparations reached a climax, the Tokyo Games were postponed in March […]
As more Nigerians including political leaders are testing positive and embarking on and coming out of self-isolation, the lockdown ordered by the Federal Government is beginning to reveal in clear disbelief the abysmal and decadent […]
The coming of COVID-19 has created spurious and fantastic narratives, types of which are usually spun around tumultuous events. Specifically, conspiracy theorists are curiously contending that rolling out the fifth generation (5G) network by the […]
FROM regime to regime, the Federal Government has been visionless in its approaches toward the revival of our moribund refineries and resumption of local refining of petroleum products in Nigeria. We had hoped that the […]
BEREFT of an efficient health care system and a genuine commitment to its eradication, Nigeria has remained stuck among countries with a malignant presence of the deadly tuberculosis infection. Nigeria in 2018 came sixth, behind […]
Nigerians celebrate today Easter Sunday. For Christians the world over, the weekend marks the end of the forty-day period of Lent, a celebration of the central mystery that defines the Christian faith – the suffering, […]
If there was ever any doubt about the indiscretion, illegality, breach of constitutional provisions and lack of coordination still permissible among public officeholders, then Tuesday’s arrest of two pilots in Rivers State and attendant row […]
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