Nigeria has recently intensified efforts to eradicate tuberculosis, TB, a persistent public health challenge. Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has been pivotal in driving these initiatives, aligning them with President Bola Tinubu administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda. What are Nigeria’s TB prevalence rate in a global context, endemic zones, historical […]

The recent meeting between the Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), and the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, on tackling substance abuse among Nigerian youths in higher institutions is a welcome step in confronting a deepening crisis. Nigeria’s university campuses, which ought to be […]

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, paid a working visit to President Bola Tinubu last week. A highlight of the meeting was her positive comment on the performance of the Nigerian economy under the president who has just completed 26 months in the saddle. According to her, while speaking to media: […]

The Federal Government took decisive steps last week to quench the fire of controversies rocking the aviation sector. Just as the tide of public opinion was turning in favour of Miss Comfort Emmanson, the Ibom Air passenger in the vortex of alleged violations, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, issued a statement on […]

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers. This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was […]