Issues/Policy

For the umpteenth time, another mother showed callousness to a little girl that lived with her. Last week, the barbarity of Mrs Ifeoma Ozougwu to 10-year-old Nneoma Nnadi who lived with her as a house-help […]

For the first time in the twenty-two years I have been writing for Sunday Vanguard, I will do what I have never done before, namely, publish verbatim a reply from one of the teeming readers […]

In May 2020 National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said that it would be continuing its research into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment protocol for COVID-19 even when some […]

Dear Ma, Although I’m a boy, I love your articles and can’t wait to read them every Saturday! May God bless and reward you! Kunle Dear Aunty Temilolu, One hundred per cent truth, I am […]

It was one of those stories you read and immediately begin to hope that what is being speculated isn’t exactly what happened simply because the details are gruesome to imagine. I am talking about the […]

The demolition of a building under construction at the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra, Ghana, is an obvious case of lawlessness. The question is whether the primary acts of lawlessness were by the demolishers […]

In a bid to boost local production and processing of fresh tomatoes, reduce pre and post-harvest losses, and also develop the value chain to improve revenue streams for tomato farmers, an N20b Tomato processing factory […]

“Reading is not something our leaders have taken seriously. One building which has taken several years to complete is the National Library. The site was bought when Abuja was created. They started something on it […]

Appreciation goes to all activists who take up the fight in an effort to make our society a better one. One of them organised a webinar lately with the aim of raising awareness on the […]

Recently, I stumbled on the speech Vice President Yemi Osinbajo delivered in 2017 at the forum, “Biafra: 50 years after”, which held at the Shehu Musa Y’aradua Centre, Abuja on Thursday. “We are Greater together […]

Let me state urgently that I am dwelling on the current topic very much against my good sense of judgment. I had promised myself as far back as Friday, August 9, 2019, that I would […]

COVID-19 is not only economic, but it is also social and it is creating too much disharmony that both WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom and UN’s Secretary-General seem not in a position to coordinate World’s great […]

Governments across the country should end COVID-19 lockdown today, not tomorrow. Owing to the sudden halt in commercial activities, which has exacerbated the economic downturn in Nigeria, private organisations are laying off their workers. Some […]

WHEREVER former Governor of Oyo State, Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi is, all the furore about his illness, death, and burial would mean nothing to him. He does not need it, he could – if the dead […]

From COVID-19 to climate disruption, from racial injustice to rising inequalities, we are a world in turmoil. At the same time, we are an international community with an enduring vision – embodied in the United […]

nadedokun@gmail.com The broadcaster, ‘Youtuber’ and self-proclaimed preacher, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze, is a subject whose interests almost always invite attention. As a person though, I have resisted the temptation to join debates […]

Rape is a barbaric/stone age behavioural trait that continues to rule our present world, despite the numerous sophisticated technological achievements of modern humanity. It is a menace that is neither Eastern nor Western in terms […]

Finally, the Federal Government has conceded that inter-state movement can be permitted despite the ravaging pandemic of COVID-19. Nothing really has improved in our battle to stem this costly importation from China, only an admission […]

Ever since the day Adam and Eve fell for Lucifer’s deception, the root of evil was planted deep in the soul of mankind. From the moment man engaged the slithering serpent in a conversation, wickedness […]