The theme of this year’s World Health Day: Universal Health Coverage, for Nigeria, cannot be more apt. In the country there are lots of health gabs...
That Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government remain the highest employer of labour in Nigeria is an indication that the nation has a perceptibly active...
The recent protest by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, over food shortage in their camps, has brought to the fore, yet...
Several decades ago, it would have been unthinkable and inconceivable that a Nigerian would contemplate suicide for whatever reason and even carry out the act. And...
For decades, the sad story of how Nigeria’s palm oil industry nosedived has been told and retold. Happily, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has taken...
Global outrage trailed the cold blooded murder of worshippers who assembled to observe the Juma’at prayers on Friday March 15, 2019, at Al Noor and Linwood...
Considering the rate at which buildings collapse in our country these days, it is obvious that we have failed to insist on quality and standards in...
Happily, since year 2000, through concerted global efforts, an estimated 54million TB death were averted, yet Tuberculosis, TB, still remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease and...
As was expected, the race for the leadership of the National Assembly is on with the attendant intrigues and horse-trading. In all circumstances, trying to secure...
The controversy generated by the schism in the ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State that almost denied it participation in the just...
Although so many things defined the just concluded general election, one outstanding issue is the worrisome evidence of low voter turnout which became more alarming during...
On May 29, the date constitutionally set aside for newly-elected or re-elected president and governors to take their oath of office is around the corner. If...
Before the 2019 polls, Nigeria had conducted five general elections since the return to civil rule – 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. The five elections...
Last week, two senior officials of the federal government hinted government’s intention to increase Value Added Tax by 50 per cent as part of adjustments aimed...
Reports emanating from the rerun of the governorship and House of Assembly elections indicate that admonitions on the need to eschew violence during the exercise by...