.By Senator Iroegbu Rainy season in Nigeria brings a lot of health challenges, which should be a cause for concern as there is a possibility it could impact the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, if appropriate measures are not put in place to mitigate the potential health hazards, there may emerge a scenario […]

.By ‘Dele Farotimi When you grow up around the old, or perhaps I should say that if you are blessed enough to have “Iya Olu” as your mother’s mother, who had raised seven of her own children, and several from other women’s wombs, and who in her dotage, pours the essence of Yoruba culture into […]

.By Azu Ishiekwene When I left Abuja at short notice nine days ago, the city was already emptying out. The single biggest factory and business centre there – the National Assembly – was on the verge of closure. Before the closure was announced, though, things were already slowing down but there was still just enough […]

.By Taopheek Babayeju The Nigerian government announced the closure of land borders only a few days ago when the virus had found it’s way into major cities, claimed its first victim and infected top government officials. How could a nation with the largest population in Africa, with obviously one of the poorest health systems be […]

.By Okechukwu Nwanguma The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is composed, basically, of two types of Police Officers.  On the one hand, the NPF has quite a good number of excellent police officers who are inclined to carrying out their duties with the highest levels of integrity, professionalism, fairness and humaneness. It has a surfeit of […]

.By Oluseyi Olufemi   Fela Anikulapo Kuti, renowned Nigerian poet, prophet and priest, in his melodic hymn “Teacher don’t teach me nonsense” best captured the reasons for the present scenario of people’s growing distrust of the world’s established body of medical orthodoxy in the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. While the urbane mind readily accepts […]

.By Ben Elumah The biggest tragedy suffered by the state of Imo in the last 10 years, is the elevation of persons who had no business in public office to positions of responsibility in government.  It is an extreme error to offer serious positions of responsibility to persons who neither have the discipline nor the […]

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In most parts of the world, it feels like the world has come to, or is coming to, an end. Routines have been displaced. Familiar reality has been ruptured. Even habitual perceptions of the world around us are being disrupted. And people are gripped by immobilizing panic and anxiety. […]