Nigeria must protect the classroom
“Can Education Survive Attack: The Resilience of Human Communities” is the theme of this year’s International Day to Protect Education from Attack, marked on 9 September. This is very apt for Nigeria as schools reopen for the 2026/2027 session. For a country where children are abducted from schools, the occasion is a painful reminder of […]
Framework for the care of IDPs
THE recent call by Honourable Sanni Zorro, the member of the House of Representatives for the Gumel/Maigatari, Sule Tankar/Gagarawa Federal Constituency of Jigawa State for the domestication of the Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is a worthy idea.
Ending AIDS in 2030: How achievable for Nigeria?
BEFORE 2003, there was progression in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Records show that from 1991 – 1999 the HIV prevalence increased from 1.8 percent to 5.4 percent. It dropped to 4.1 percent in 2011 and further dropped to 3.8 percent in 2013.
Drunks in uniform must be fished out
LAST Sunday’s brutal killing of the Oyesunle twins, Taiwo and Kehinde and their friend, Adesanya Adegoke in Ketu, Lagos by a drunken policeman, Sergeant Stephen James, was another evidence of our scant regard for life.
The desirable forex policy re-jig
PERHAPS the current regime at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, may go down in history as that with the highest turnover of policies, rules, regulations and guidelines in the annals of foreign exchange management in Nigeria so far.
Oil, forex budget benchmark 2016
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari might have made his most important move since assuming office as elected president seven months ago, releasing the 2016 budget, which is expected to actualise his democracy dividend to the electorate.
