COVID-19: A test of our national character
There’s an overpowering fright over the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the globe. As new cases are reported and death toll rises, fear squeezes many into a corner. Gradually, despair is...
View ArticleCoronavirus and the leadership question
Promise Adiele Coronavirus currently holds the world by the jugular, threatening to suffocate humanity. It recognizes no gender, status, creed or ethnicity. It is a present reality. In the spirit of...
View ArticleSouth Sudan and the formation of unity government
Abdullahi Suleiman Otiwe The South Sudanese government on Saturday 22nd February 2020 formed a government of national unity to mark the end of the over six years protracted civil war in the world’s...
View Article2020 Olympics: Searching for clean competition
Emmanuel Mbah Doping has been a hot topic in recent years when it comes to athletics and the Olympic Games. It is nothing new with athletes as far back as the 1968 Games in Mexico city having been...
View ArticleAnambra airport project: A boost
Michael Ike Udah The Anambra State Airport project has a long history. Governor Willie Obiano, FCA, launched the Umueri Cargo Airport project on 11 April, 2017. Anambra Airport City Infrastructure...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the need to contain its spread
Ademola Orunbon What began with a handful of mysterious illness in a vast central China city has traveled the world, jumping from animals to humans and from obscurity to international headlines? First...
View ArticleSanusi II: Throwing away the baby with the bath water
Adewuyi Adegbite The dethronement of the former emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi Lamido II, by the Kano state government came to many reasonable people as a rude shock. The pedigree of the former Emir, both...
View ArticleHas Nigeria veered off the runaway?
Uzodinma Nwaogbe In recent times, there has been increase in the list of prominent voices against the violence, kidnapping and destruction of communities and killings of citizens in Nigeria by...
View ArticleAnxieties and fears of the coronavirus
Livinus Ukah There is a serious anxiety and fear pervading the whole world over the corona virus. Many people have already suspected getting it even before it gets to them due to the massive publicity...
View ArticleLessons from the coronavirus pandemic
Ayo Oyoze Baje “The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession” –Mark Twain All so suddenly the coronavirus pandemic has given meaning to the assertion of ‘a global village’ just like...
View ArticleCoronavirus: The Nigerian dream cure
SKC Ogbonnia The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which has compelled people to stay within their localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home. It has exposed...
View ArticleNigerians and WHO’s COVID-19 social distancing etiquette
ISAAC N. OBASI The week of Monday March 16, to Sunday March 22, 2020, marked a turning point in both the rising cases of coronavirus (code-named COVID-19) in Nigeria, and the concomitant swift public...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic and its blistering effects
The rampaging Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in the Wuhan Province of China in December last year, came without a warning. It came without a siren. Even our so-called prophets and men...
View ArticleCalumny as tool of pay Tv signal theft
Dunni Majolagbe There appears to be a desire in some quarters, not excluding some government officials, that the country’s pay-television landscape should be an ethics-free trade zone. That desire is...
View ArticleWomen as game changers in Nigeria’s democracy
Professor (Mrs.) Adebukola Osunyikanmi It is indisputable that Nigeria is having an agonizing experience concerning insecurity, terrorist activities, threats of secession and disaffection among her...
View ArticleBenefits of online assets declaration
Charles Ofomata According to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) it is mandatory for all Public Officers whether elected, appointed, recruited, contracted etc., by whatever name...
View ArticleBenefits of online assets declaration
Charles Ofomata According to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) it is mandatory for all Public Officers whether elected, appointed, recruited, contracted etc., by whatever name...
View ArticleWith CoVID-19, no one is VIP
Oludayo Tade From WUHAN in China to other parts of the globe, the novel Corona virus (COVID-19) ravaging the world has shown that human behaviour in a corner of the world can affect and be dangerous to...
View ArticleCOVID-19 scourge: From socioeconomic wars to ‘global peace’
Jerome-Mario Utomi There is no event in recent history of the world that did so well to demonstrate how united and peaceful the world could be than the current outbreak of, and effort by the global...
View ArticleThe Jonathan Chukwuma Conundrum
I am sure these past few weeks have not been the best of time for me in particular and any other rational thinking personality anywhere in the world. I have as a matter of fact, lost my thinking cap...
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