Issues/Policy

Sometimes it takes crisis to reveal gaps and discontinuities. The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, currently ravaging the world has revealed how leadership can be challenged by the unexpected and the need to innovate “ahead […]

In Nigeria, my country of close to 200 million people, the COVID-19 lockdown began on March 30 in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As with nations the world over we are following […]

This is one of the most profound statements about the human race you will ever come across: “We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us.” […]

Nigeria announced its first COVID-19 case on February 27 – an Italian who came into the country on February 24 and displayed symptoms of the disease while visiting Lafarge Cement Company in Ewekoro, Ogun State. […]

These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it seems almost no nation is spared. As infection rates rise, so does panic across […]

What Nigeria must realise is that the credit it got for handling the Ebola virus disease does not give it a license to be a risk to the rest of the world this time through […]

These are very abnormal times. The earth we laboured to build is shutting down before our eyes and we have no magic wand. Although we’ve faced several challenges in our lifetimes, overcoming them never made […]

Covid-P could have been an evidence of what ought to have been done that was left undone and still insist to be attended to so as to arrest self-inflicted human terror as weapons are deployed […]

Suddenly, and after a confusing lull, government at the centre stirred itself into a flurry of activities to step down and control the escalating spread of the dreaded COVID-19. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]

I am skipping today my promise to inform my readers of what the Living Spiritual Masters think of our current plight with respect to coronavirus, the deadly disease devastating the globe in a kind of […]

The day on which Jesus died is marked as Good Friday by many Christians and others. It is a day in which Christians go to churches to offer special prayers and celebrate him. Christians remember […]

Coronavirus outbreak happened and Nigeria’s health minister, Dr Osagie Enahire, began to hold press briefings. The purpose is to bring Nigerians up to speed regarding the outbreak. It’s also to give facts that render speculations […]

Fola Ojo This is the new age of a pandemic pandemonium. COVID-19 has set the globe on bonfires. From New York to New Jersey; and from New Orleans to New Mexico; nothing is standing at […]

By Tayo Ogunbiyi As things currently stand, all over the globe, the fear of Coronavirus a.k.a. COVID -19, is now the beginning of wisdom. Indeed, who will not fear a pandemic that has inflicted so […]

They are patriots who love their country dearly, and also love its President. Very dearly. To use the local parlance, ‘dem’ love President Muhammadu Buhari scatter. Through thick and thin, they have been with him, […]

Subterfuge. Propaganda. Lies. All have a date with truth. The truth is inexorable; it will always extinguish lies and propaganda. Nigeria’s ‘’successes’’ in the war against Boko Haram have been largely propaganda. Since 2015, when […]

Hard as it is, the lockdown order on Lagos State, Ogun State and the Federal Capital Territory is government’s most proactive step towards curtailing the COVID-19 disease so far. Arguments that government should have ordered […]

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com Among the many different Nigerian interpretations of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, I have extracted three. First is the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, who claimed God allowed […]

In this article, I submit that a certain group of Nigerians I clarify as the elite have behaved irresponsibly in this time of COVID-19 (coronavirus) global pandemic and that through their actions, they put their […]

In the last few days, the COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to dynamic developments from Nigerians. Since the presidential broadcast, more than N20 billion have been donated by wealthy Nigerians to help our country to […]