Issues/Policy

Quite a challenging week it has been for Nigeria, and, indeed, the rest of the world, writes Femi Adesina, the media adviser to President Buhari. Except perhaps in China only, where the affliction started from, […]

Once again, a major global illness has caught our country pants down. No country anticipated, let alone prepared for COVID-19. But other countries are ready for such eventualities. When they come, their response time is […]

The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: […]

Dear Mama Graça, It is with due respect that I decided to write to you today. We met at a number of fora over time but none as close as in April 1995 when I […]

Two Fridays ago, I narrated here what I felt about the interview Professor Banji Akintoye, the retired Professor of History and currently a top Yoruba leader, granted Channels Television. Mr. Ladi Akeredolu Ale, the anchor […]

The cloud out there is still dark, the thunderstorm swirls with warning. A day the trumpet blows itself without a signal may just have come. Just suddenly a day turns into a night. A scary […]

Political leaders in Nigeria from time immemorial especially in the fourth republic, developed a penchant for misfiring on issues that affect all Nigerians. From power to education, infrastructure, health and the topical COVID-19 pandemic of […]

The spread of the infectious Coronavirus now referred to as COVID-19, with its attendant and towering impact on global economy has clearly become an existential threat to humanity. The pandemic is reshaping the world in […]

In recent times, cases of natural disaster in the form of flood and fire outbreaks have wreaked havoc across Nigeria. This has resulted in the loss of lives and damage to property worth millions of […]

We are all learning science now. The Coronavirus pandemic, also known as Covid-19, is teaching humanity the lesson of a lifetime. Almost all the countries of the world are affected. On Sunday, Cuba, a small […]

When Senator Ndoma-Egba turned 64 on Saturday, the 7th day of March 2020, President Buhari publicly acknowledged him in glowing terms. The President in his goodwill message described Senator Ndoma-Egba as a role model, a […]

Concerned about the alarming rate of drug abuse, suicides and mental illness among youths, a non-governmental organisation, Adicare rehabilitation home has embarked on enlightenment and advocacy campaign to schools in order curb the menace. Chief […]

It was bound to happen. It was just a matter of time. They said that, like Abiola, he had also ridden the back of the tiger. Their instruments for the final onslaught were ready and […]

At a time the whole world and by extension, Nigeria is focused on how to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic, Pastor Tunde Bakare’s focus is on 2023 presidency. Preaching his sermon on Sunday, 22 March, […]

Dear Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, I have not come to gloat over your affliction by coronavirus (COVID-19); I have come to sympathise with you and to wish you strength as […]

This is my third commentary on the Coronavirus pestilence (see “E ku Corona o” – ThisDay, March 3, and “Amala and the Coronavirus patient” – ThisDay, March 10), and now, three weeks later, the most […]

COVID-19 and how to stop its ongoing war on mankind is what’s keeping everyone awake day and night, even my four-year old daughter has somehow caught wind of how to pronounce the word “coronavirus.” Nations […]

Dr Tayo Oke, drtayooke@gmail.com When the news of the dethronement and “banishment” of the (now former) Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, broke just over a week ago, many people, including his friends and foes […]

FOR Nigeria, which has just recorded its first novel coronavirus death, the tragic footprints of the global pandemic have become inescapable. Not surprisingly, tension escalated around the country on Monday after the Nigeria Centre for […]