NUT calls for more investment in public education
By Hadiza Yusuf The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has called for increased government investment in public education, saying poor funding and inadequate attention to teachers’ welfare are contributing to the decline in the country’s education system. The union made the call on Thursday, in Kano during the launch of the Go Public, Fund Education […]
Pathology crisis: Nigeria has less than 200 specialists for 200m people
…Pathologists demand urgent investment as brain-drain, poor working conditions threaten cancer careBy Chioma Obinna Nigeria has fewer than 200 practising pathologists serving a population of more than 200 million people, a development experts say is threatening accurate diagnosis, cancer care and the wider health system. The specialists, who described pathology as the bedrock of modern […]
2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
Dr Abati’s misrepresentations of the ICPC “fake agency” investigation, by Suleiman A. Suleiman
RIGHT OF REPLY Dr Rueben Abati’s “The Menace of Fake Agencies” syndicated column in THISDAY and TheCable this week makes an interesting, but also an alarming reading. As is usual for a commentator on Nigerian public affairs spanning nearly four decades, the article was well-argued and thought-provoking. Quite unusually, however, the article contains factual misrepresentations of […]
Sheikh Jingir: Tinubu strips Christianity of political relevance in Nigeria, by Olu Fasan
In 2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu sowed the seed of the political humiliation of Christianity in Nigeria. As a presidential candidate, Tinubu concluded that Christianity was of such low electoral value that no northern Christian could help him win the presidency. Thus, he picked a fellow Muslim as his running mate. It worked. However, the seed that Tinubu […]
Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
