A couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Vanguard lamented the mass exodus of the country’s medical doctors in its front page story. The article talked of a medical workforce so depleted that retired doctors had to be coerced back to save our hospitals and offer a semblance of professional service to the people. These days, […]

The Universal Church, otherwise known as the Catholic Church in many parts of the world including ours, designates the month of October as the month of Mother Mary. It is the month during which praying the Rosary by the faithful is encouraged every day to ask for Mary’s intervention in the affairs of man especially […]

First, let me start with my own Libyan experience. I was billed to do a professional tour of some Middle-East countries and Libya was one of them. My destination was Tripoli. My goal was to get a firsthand view of the developments that had taken place in this oil rich country. I was hoping my […]

Last week, someone I have a great deal of respect for summarised the current electricity tariff so beautifully on a platform we both belong to when he said ‘A short while ago, we had air conditioners we couldn’t use because there was no NEPA (electricity). Today, we dare not use these air conditioners because of […]

These days, the phrase, ‘Tales by moonlight’ is used for wild conspiracy theories, conjectures and outlandish narrations that barely touch reality. In other words, fairy tales that even fools would find difficult to believe and therefore, to be dismissed outright. They are right, except for the dismissive cynicism. Growing up in a rural town, I […]