Issues/Policy

Lekan Sote lekansote@yahoo.com 08050220816 (SMS only) Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” is a protest book, written by Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, who later went into exile. It explores the relationship between the know-it-all European colonisers of […]

As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, corporate leaders and organisations are trying to adapt and innovate as much as possible. What leaders and organisations do now, and how they respond to the impact of COVID-19 […]

The spread of the coronavirus in Africa has exposed the precarious nature of many of its healthcare systems. I am writing this at a fraught time in the history of public healthcare on the continent. […]

By ‘Yinka Adeosun Forty years ago, smallpox became the only human disease to be eradicated globally, as the World Health Organisation certified its eradication in 1980. Caused by one of two variants of virus, the […]

In the entire Benin Kingdom and other parts of Edo State, it is a taboo for a woman who is traditionally married to a man, to engage in extra-marital affairs with other men. It is […]

Continued from yesterday The conventional wisdom in all tendencies of the Calabar Group of Socialists was that if you conceive a mass political action or radical intervention you first discuss the viability with Comrade James […]

Think Nigeria and its crude oil production, and you probably envisage gas flaring, environmental degradation and poverty amid wealth. In earnest, Nigeria’s government past or present, is seen to be earnestly desperate in its desire […]

The debate about whether COVID-19 is natural or genetically modified has continued unabated. There have been claims, counter-claims and outright disclaimers as the virus takes its toll on humans. These controversies illustrate a great deal […]

When my mobile telephone rang around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, I knew, before checking it, what news I would receive: the death, at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), of James […]

Against the background of an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections and a near apathy of citizens to observing all the protocols for the prevention of the scourge, the Lagos State government, which last […]

Since 1999 Nigeria has had four Chiefs of Staff who served four of our Presidents. Retired Major General Abdullahi Mohammed served Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for all of his eight years in office and one year […]

The fact that President Muhammadu Buhari is steering the ship of state in troubled waters makes it imperative for him to have stronger will power to wither the storm. If he fails to assert himself […]

Many reports that African Americans have died disproportionately from COVID-19 have correctly attributed this phenomenon to structural socio-economic inequalities, but failed to provide a historical account of the root causes of these disparities. The Transatlantic […]

The aim of this piece is to congratulate, share my views on the man we both have mutual respect for each other for our interest in development matters and offer my humble advice to him […]

An afterthought indeed it is for any official to feign ignorance of the location of the Federal College of Education at Iwo when all the six letters were signed on the same date for each […]

There are rising speculations and distortion of facts on the issue of asset recovery and disposal by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. But the Commission says that guidelines and procedures on the issue […]

azonwuka@yahoo.com 0809-8727-263 (sms only) When Chancellor Angela Merkel said on March 11 that up to 70 per cent of the German population could contract the novel coronavirus disease (also known as COVID-19), she sounded like […]

They were all together in peace until squabbles between siblings erupted in the woodland; COVID-19 was tall, thin and bony but boldly huddled out into the globe and makes us shiver like seaweed at the […]

COVID-19 has become an enlightening and an unusual event. What is incontrovertible is that there is a huge gulf, a chasm of indescribable proportion between the “governors” and we, the “governed”. COVID-19 has proved that. […]