Issues/Policy

Nursing as the heart of health care system means a lot, medicine and surgery might be the brain but in medicine, it has been proven that when the heart stops working the brain brain dies […]

The death of revered retired judge of the Lagos State High Court, Hon. Justice Isiaka Ishola Oluwa on Saturday left a sour taste in my mouth and a deep pain in my heart not on […]

In their prickly reaction to my April 16 Washington Post #ChinaMustPay article (a response published in the Guardian Newspaper of May 3, 2020), the Government of China through their Embassy in Nigeria missed the opportunity […]

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says the country’s low testing rate for COVID-19 is depressing. In a statement entitled: “Preparing For The Worst Case Scenario”, Francis Faduyile, NMA president, called for improvement. He said the […]

Like many other societies in the world, Africa boasts of a past that is ambivalent, a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. She had villains, despots, tyrants, developmental leaders and all sorts […]

Re: Open Letter To Fayemi – How Negligence, Lack of PPE and Oxygen killed my Mum at EKSUTH Dear John, Your open letter on the above stated was brought to my attention. First, I commiserate […]

It’s saddening to note that when the deadly COVID–19 virus struck Nigeria, our universities shut down alongside nursery and primary schools. No room was provided for e-learning. Nigerian students are glued to their houses waiting […]

Your Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you would recall that when the coronavirus pandemic began to take its toll on the Nigerian economy, President Muhammadu Buhari set up the […]

By geo-political and global categorization, Nigeria is a third world country. The country boasts of a huge population, incredible ethnic diversity, rich cultural provincialism, unique human talent aggregation and a huge destination of natural resources. […]

INTRODUCTION  Generally, human rights are deemed almost sacrosanct in most part of the world where democratic tenets are upheld, and this is why they have universal appeal. However, there are certain instances where these rights have […]

The other day a clever man was speaking about the world after corona virus otherwise known as COVID-19. Whichever, way and manner Nigeria may change it will never admit of medical tourism ever again. Someone […]

Three weeks ago in the United States of America, a man called the police complaining that his son was not happy on his birthday because the country is on lockdown as there are no family […]

The report of the 2012 Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies also known as the Oronsaye Panel Report, is a significant public document, which neither time nor event […]

Let’s tell the story of Venezuela, because it bears striking similitude with that of Nigeria. Just like us, Venezuela is rich in oil, very rich. At a time, the county’s problem was not money, but […]

The battle for justice and freedom is never so easy. You must find a reason to commit yourself to it because there will always be challenges to distract you, some compelling situations that could force […]

IMAGINE what dreary times majority of Nigerians are going through as they are locked down because of the Corona Virus. Their complaints of hunger, anger, and deprivations are worsened by promises of palliatives that have […]

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible”, Findae, Pythian III. Sisyphus was a wise and prudent man that offended the gods. His sin was exploring their […]

How Africa copes with the attack on lives and livelihoods brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak will depend largely on how quickly stakeholders organise a public health response. The quality of the collaboration between public […]