When the NCDC got to Imo state a couple of weeks ago they left a warning. They asked Imo to find Coronavirus cases. At the time Imo had no confirmed case, and the NCDC thought Imo which had many citizens in diaspora, and heavy international  traffic, was too clean.

Dr Ugoji Egbujo When SERS and MERS came, they didn’t get us. So when I heard of coronavirus in  Wuhan in January, I simply called it OPP – other peoples property. Yes, property! But Coronavirus is here and if our recent daily jumps and the news from Kano are anything to go by, then the […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Abba Kyari is dead. We have learnt more about him since he died. It is true when a man dies eulogies and flowers are laid beside him. And eulogies will be eulogies. But the eulogies we have read since he died haven’t just told us how beautiful his soul was ; […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo For Nigeria, Coronavirus might have infected us with many right attitudes. The NNPC plans six first class hospitals in the six regions. The NNPC has lived for ages with a reputation for profligacy and oddities, like being the source of bribes used to undermine the integrity of elections. The NNPC had […]

By Dr Ugoji Egbujo Prominent amongst those whose emptiness have been exposed are pastors and imams. A popular Nigerian pastor has been making television rounds,  armed with graphs and pie charts, telling tales of his abject ignorance. If he had stopped at telling us fables about how 5G caused COVID we could have pardoned him […]