Over the decades, African countries have had to contend with a variety of problems ranging from brain drain, poverty, bad leadership, famine, and diseases. These diseases have not only killed many people but have prevented […]
Should we cry or just laugh? My initial thought was to act like a dog that sees a bone-like plank that seemed a great delicacy. It got close, smelled it, disappointed that it wasn’t bone; […]
Muhammad Nami, Chairman of the Federal (Board of) Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), seems to have a made of hobby of whining about his predecessor, Babatunde Fowler’s past policies. Recently, he said the FIRS “keeled over” […]
The realities of the moment and conditions objectivity have thrown a great challenge to the Nigerian government and Nigerians. For the first time in centuries, Nigeria has been exposed to a situation which quick intervention […]
On March 3rd, 2020, I got a call from the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. It was a 5 minutes call. The call was centred on Iris Medical Foundation Drugs and its effectiveness in […]
We are gradually getting to the center of it all, now marking one month and some days since the compulsory lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic, although this has not seriously affected some sectors of […]
TheCable, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper, marked its sixth anniversary on April 29, 2020. In this interview with eelive.ng, Simon Kolawole, Founder and CEO of Cable Newspaper Ltd, speaks on the journey so far, the challenges facing the […]
Continued from yesterday Why do we continue to have mixed signals from government especially in the area of monetary palliative? How do we reconcile our advocacy of cashless society and the prescription of social distancing […]
The circular from the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, to taxpayers over payment of taxes, is one that has left me heavily puzzled. The circular, which gave an update on […]
The reported disappearance of Miss Bianca Ada Chidi, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, on her way back to Lagos from Ife is heart-rending and lamentable. The family is shocked as to whereabouts of […]
Tayo Oke drtayooke@gmail.com The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Emeka Nwajiuba, made it emphatically clear on April 28, in Abuja, that: “There is no date yet for schools to resume”. He stuck to that […]
Last week, with Nigeria recording about 2,000 cases of COVID-19, the Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, lamented that they might start treating COVID-19 patients at home because of shortage of […]
What is poverty? Pause. Think really well about the question. Take a hard long look at Nigeria and repeat the question to yourself; what is poverty? Do you know poverty? Have you seen poverty? Does […]
If you are a non-indigene of Nnewi but want to be loved exceedingly in Nnewi, buy a parcel of land and start a company that employs people. The moment you do that, the message you […]
This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Coronavirus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since […]
Since the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic on 11 March, the mantra has been to tell us to maintain some “social distancing” to avoid being infected. On 20 March, WHO dropped […]
The decision to ease the lockdown is obviously more political than realistic and scientific. The economic reasons adduced for proposed easing of the lockdown are purely political excuses that do not explain much. It should […]
If history teaches anything, it is that in our present conditions, the toll from a second wave of infections will hurt more than that from the first one. Votaries of even a religion as secular […]
It seems the Lagos State government is gradually passing its own test. Other state governments must rise to the occasion. To Governor Ganduje: Duty calls. Thou shall not live by dollars alone. The governor of […]
As our prime minister, Boris Johnson, said at the conference today: “The race to discover the vaccine to defeat this virus is not a competition between countries, but the most urgent shared endeavour of our […]
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