Issues/Policy

NIGERIANS and other Africans living in China have been subjected to brutal racial assaults by the authorities of their host country, following the recent uptick in the COVID-19 pandemic. They were accused of being the […]

Nigeria and virtually all countries in the world are experiencing economic slowdown arising from the coronavirus pandemic. Public and private establishments have been shut, individuals and families have been locked down in obedience to obey […]

Sometime last year, I had the honour of being received by Abba Kyari, the larger-than-life Chief of Staff to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). His office was neat and well-organised; the furnishing in […]

So much dust has been raised since Abba Kyari bit the dust last Friday. When he walked the surface of the earth, the Chief of Staff to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was […]

The Lagos State Government on Sunday, as part of efforts to step up COVID-19 tests, created testing centres in 20 local government areas of the state. The state government, which released a list of the […]

Everyone who believes in the word of God must be committed to its fulfillment; whether good or bad. When I started editing my book, Doctor Strangelove in 2005, I had over thirty chapters to work […]

The sad news of Mallam Abba Kyari’s death is forcing all of us to reflect deeply on life and its meaning. For those of us who were privileged to observe this exceptional human being at […]

“If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.”~ Germany Kent. Funke Akindele’s recent experience is not one of […]

First and foremost, what value do we place on digitalised systems of operations over analog based mode of running our affairs? In the past, I have heard and read about the way and manner the […]

In searching for information on Professor Jones, you will be told that your search does not match anything in their possession if you write his name in full with the middle Yoruba name. Yet, Durosimi […]

On January 18, 2020, when I first read of the new coronavirus on the BBC website, my heart missed a beat because of what China means to the world. The headline was: “New virus in […]

Nigeria, like all nations in the world today, faces an economic and a health crisis. Unlike others, our nation is burdened by three other major problems. The first is crisis of leadership at the topmost […]

When in the face of the dangers that COVID-19 presents, a country is reduced to a debate that is cast as a binary option between lockdown and hunger, you know that leadership has gone on […]

The world is upside down right now as a result of the invasive nature of Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The disruption brought by the global disease outbreak on the socio-cultural and economic lives of people, is […]

The covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe injury to Africa’s development prospects and worsened the conditions of its poor and vulnerable. Although there are calls for voluntary international aid to support the continent during this […]

By Atsuko Toda and Martin Fregene We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fueling anxiety about negative economic […]

Since February 25th when the first case of the deadly coronavirus pandemic was confirmed in Nigeria via an Italian, there has been a steady increase in the figure of infected people. As at 16th April, […]

Yes, sometimes, you just have to stare at the sky and ask: why is ours always different? What gods framed us so negatively different? It is a puzzling and a rather disturbingly annoying admittance that […]

Memory is our past, present and future. It is a record of personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success, pain and joy. It is something you remember. The Spanish […]