Health

Drug Tests For Nigerian Politicians And Their Aides

In Nigeria, we always ask the question, “Are you on drugs?” when someone behaves in a way inconsistent with accepted social and human standards....

Double Standards In The Drug War: NDLEA Cast Into Shadows By Excessive Pardons

When President Tinubu recently granted clemency to 175 convicts — including over 40 illegal miners, around 28 drug traffickers, and several murderers — public...

Kwashiorkor Returns With Renewed Hopelessness

The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty...

Is UNIBEN a COVID-19 Bomb waiting to Explode?

The industrial hostilities between the Federal government of Nigeria, FGN, and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, seems to have come to an...

My Covid-19 Experience

I had an experience over the Christmas holidays that I am yet to recover from, psychologically. My wife brought our children from Lagos to...

Irregular Narratives with the Management of Covid-19 in Edo

Among the states that Nigerians adjudged to have proactively managed the Covid 19 after it hit Nigeria in March 2020 was Edo. One of...

Covid-19: Azadus Cheats Death

Prologue In the early 90s, he took the music industry by storm with hit singles like Madam, You Is the One and Say Me Well....

For Health to be Wealth in Edo: Obaseki to the Rescue

There’s no denying the place of quality healthcare in assessing human development. Human beings have to be first of all hale and hearty to...

The Pandemic and the Country’s Future

Nigeria’s decision to ‘unwind’ the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in the capital, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States refers. As we strive to “balance the need to...

Edo State, lying on a sick bed of good health

Prior to the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, hospitals in Nigeria were (and still are) little more than mere consulting clinics. The rich and...

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Days that follow!

“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependents. If people cannot eat, they...

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Oyebamiji: In Our Best Interest?

By Olanrewaju Iyunade ​In developing democracies, public officials constantly face...

Two Governors and Many Missing Opportunities

In the absence of clear and complete explanation and indeed justification of any government action, people are left with no alternative but to speculate. Consequently, a lot of possible reasons and opinions are going around regarding the actions of the Governors...

Panacea for Nigeria’s Survival: Enduring Institutions

This is an article borne out of thorough concern...

The African Entrepreneur

When most African countries became independent during the 1960s, joining the political class was more appealing and rewarding than going into the private sector...

Unveiling Year 2008 Sandwich Before Yar'Adua

Just like Obasanjo resisted the parochial agenda of Afenifere, for which he was villified by his own people, Yar’Adua should and must resist and be seen to resist the parochial agenda of the Arewa tribal bigots...

Nigerialeaks: fuel subsidy fraud

Nigeria has 4 fully functional refineries as at 1988 built by the Military regimes with a total capacity of 450,000 barrels per day production. Bearing in mind that our daily local consumption is estimated at 300,000 bpd. If the refineries were to be fully or 70-80% functional, there should be no problem with fuel availability or pricing in Nigeria...

Forever Bowing To Massa

Enough of these endless genuflections before some Big Masters out there! If we manage our nation well, some of those nations would come begging to business with us...

Any Room For Personal Responsibility?

Nigerians are in one vein optimistic and on the other cynical. We are one of the most religious yet the most corrupt nation on planet earth. Nigerians are very cynical of their government yet deeply political. In Nigeria, we breathe, sleep and eat politics. Most Nigerians are professional political critics that will cringe on the first sight of a ballot box!

The Black Race Has No Valid Excuse!

There is a lazy notion among some misinformed Black British people, that the activities of British slave traders about 200 years ago coupled with some imaginary acts of racism are responsible for the failure of  the Black race...