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These killings have gone too far Mr President
On the morning of 25 June, Nigerians woke up to the sad news of another massacre, this time in…
Eradicating sexual abuse on our campuses
Last week the Obafemi Awolowo University Ife, announced the dismissal of Prof Richard Akindele of the Department of…
Nigeria’s revenue crisis and challenge of funding…
Although the Nigerian government keeps reminding everyone that cares to listen that its debt to GDP ratio is still…
Rapes in IDP camps
The Nigerian chapter of Amnesty International – the global human rights watchdog – last month released a report…
Clarity and goodwill on off-grid power
Efforts at resolving the perennial power challenge facing Nigerians have seen the distribution companies, the…
Hospitals as funeral homes in Nigeria
Last year, the Nigerian health sector received a damning indictment from an insider – Prof Thomas Agan, Chief…
Food security in Nigeria
The current spate of killings by Fulani herdsmen and the rampaging Boko Haram insurgency is posing serious risk to…
Towards a more humane treatment of teachers
Governors of all political persuasions are doing their utmost best to denigrate teachers and the teaching…
Enabling environment and the ban on codeine syrups
All it took was one feature on the BBC World Service to make officials of the Federal Ministry of Health react in…
Making the national ID work
The National Identity Management Commission recently confessed its inability to deliver national identity cards to…
New minimum wage conundrum
At the recent May Day celebration, the issue of minimum wage came up again. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)…
Leah Sharibu: A scar on Nigeria’s conscience
Leah Sharibu, the only teenager negotiated away by the federal government on the basis of her religion, remains in…