Ebola in Nigeria: Let’s beat it again
Nigeria must rise to the challenge of containing the newly imported Ebola virus disease before it becomes another national health emergency. The confirmation of an imported case in Abuja on October 20, 2026, recalls the 2014 episode, when an infected Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, arrived in Lagos and threatened to unleash a devastating epidemic. Our valiant […]
Newly Doomed Rice Policy
IT takes a public hearing for Nigerians to know how government departments and ministries work with, or against each other. There are often speculations that governments sabotage themselves, but when they are stated officially, they are causes for concern.
We Call Them Baby Factories
ANYONE who hears about Nigeria’s “baby factories” would think it is government’s policy to sustain our high population. The tag creates impressions of facilities turning out babies round the clock. What elsewhere do factories do.
We Need More Ports, Rails
NIGERIA cannot survive on half implemented policies. The foresights on which the planning of the country were based at independence have been jettisoned for measures that sustain impressions that the country does not have a future. A simple example is the infrastructure used in distributing fuel, when it is available.
Tough On Thugs
ELECTIONS present the best opportunities for candidates to say the worst things about their opponents. Threats and counter threats appear to be the only selling points of most candidates. We are seeing more threats as people jostle for space in the governorship elections in Ekiti (June) and Osun (August).
No Alarms Over Kidnappers’ Den
BEFUDDLEMENT douses the recent police raid of Soka area of Oyo State on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway where, by police’s account a den of kidnappers was uncovered. The graphic images of the discoveries are causes for concern.
