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Nigeria’s collapsed health sector
It is no longer news that the Nigerian health sector is in dire straits. Available data show that the country has…
Violence against Shiite Muslims in Nigeria
On December 12, 2015, the military took the law into its hands and massacred over 347 members of the Islamic…
Chibok girls: Four years after
Last week, we celebrated the fourth anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls and still over 115 of the…
Illusions of rice sufficiency in Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari in his 2018 New Year’s Day address said that importation of rice will be completely…
Sexual predators as academics in Nigeria
Last week, a voice recording allegedly suggesting that a professor of Management and Accounting at the Obafemi…
$Ibn to fight insurgency: National Assembly must stand…
Late December last year, the government announced that the National Economic Council has approved $1 billion to be…
State police: How desirable?
On February 8 2018, at a security summit in Abuja, vice president Yemi Osinbajo appeared to endorse the creation of…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936 – 2018)
Winnifred Madikizela-Mandela, foremost and controversial anti-apartheid activist, mother of the nation, and former…
Why is Adebayo Shittu still a minister?
Sometime last month, Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu and his media aide, Victor Oluwadamilare got engaged…
Where are the Nigerian theories?
Knowledge, we all know, is the driver of the modern global economy and is now fundamental to development and growth…
Alarming clowning over corruption
Over the 2018 Easter holiday weekend, the Federal Government and the leading opposition party, the People’s…
Subsidy on petrol isn’t working
The Nigeria Bureau of Statistic’s Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) price watch for January 2018 showed that on the…