Bethlehem Girls’ College administrator dies while rescuing students in Lagos explosion
Rev. Sr.Henrietta Alokha, an administrator at Bethlehem Girls College, Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos state lost her life in the explosion which occurred on Sunday morning. Late Rev. Sr. Henrietta Alokha rescued all the children under her care from the explosion and could not make it herself. The Reverend reportedly died […]
Nigeria’s dysfunctional healthcare delivery system and COVID-19 incubus
By Chiedu Uche Okoye NIGERIA is grappling with multifarious and hydra-headed problems which are traceable to the rudderless, visionless, clueless, bumbling, inept, wasteful and corrupt political leaderships and military regimes that had existed in the country in the past. Now, one of our national problems is our depressed economy. Our economy has become stagnated owing […]
I will ask questions with stones: Odia Ofeimun at 70
By Owei Lakemfa GLOBAL writer, poet and humanist, Odia Ofeimun is from a lineage with close affinity with leopards. There was an unwritten rule between the humans of Iruekpen-Ekum, Edo State and that feline family that neither will attack the other. If today, there are no leopards left in that part, it is not because […]
Covid19: Saving our economy from distress
CORONAVIRUS is basically a bio-health issue but it has come to the centre stage of the global economy; it has snowballed into a major economic crisis. So a new word has entered the lexicon of known economic jargons, Coronanomics. For Nigeria, the economy was on tenterhooks already, bleeding on all fronts both public and private […]
The NASS, obnoxious bills and the rest of us
By Akintunde Babafemi We all know that the National Assembly, NASS wields enormous powers as conferred on them by the laws of our land; but it is not difficult for me or anyone else to discern that this power is often and consistently misused and abused. And, sometimes, it is done in a blackmailing fashion […]
NEMA And How Maihaja Is Fulfilling A Spiritual Mandate
By Evangelist Sunday Attah A larger percentage of the world’s population lives below the poverty line. As nations grapple with how to overcome this, they are not spared from the further debilitating and catastrophic effects of other disasters that aggravate the pitiable conditions of the poor and even increasing their number. Due to this, there […]
