MANY Nigerians do not know there are laws to punish doctors for negligence. The code of the Medical and Dental Council prescribes punishments for misconduct of its members, though the code is observed mostly in breach. The punishment the Spanish authorities meted out to a doctor who attended to Mrs. Stella Obasanjo trains attention on […]

WITH the amnesty period over yesterday, what does the Federal Government intend to do about the Niger Delta? The answers, if any, would be the strongest indication of the impact of the amnesty in the resolution of the challenges of the Niger Delta. The amnesty was bold. It remains government’s most stated move to combat […]

NOBODY can deny that Nigeria gets the rest of humanity worried over so many issues, among them, its unwillingness to lift itself out of the crippling consequences of national numbness and the remarkable tendency of its leaders for attempting to re-order the international setting to meet its mediocre standards. Many have given up on Nigerians […]

EVEN for a nation inured to scandals, the revelation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole eight months ago that civil servants embezzle N700 billion annually should shock and make Nigerians act against this sort of brazen corruption – if at all it is of that magnitude. It remains an allegation and […]

DEBATES over the supposed law that forbids hospitals from treating patients with bullet wounds without a police report re-surface each time a hospital rejects such patient. Many have lost their lives because they did not have a police report, which is not ordinarily easy to obtain. The police have often denied that such a law […]

PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar’Adua opted for a visit to Saudi Arabia when global attention is at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. At least he told Nigerians where he was, and why he was there.

ON his familiarisation visit to the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, 17th of September 2009, the new Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo, disclosed that a Bill has been sent to the National Assembly to ensure the registration of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards that enable mobile telephone handset users to make […]

On Sallah day, Monday 21st of September 2009, Nigerians woke up to the sad news of the brutal murder of Mr Bayo Ohu, an Assistant Political Editor with The Guardian Newspapers in his Akowonjo suburb home a day earlier. According to reports, the gunmen entered his house in the morning while the family was preparing […]

NIGERIA is one of the world’s poorest countries. One`fifth of Africa’s population is in Nigeria; two thirds of Nigerians, over 80 million people, live on less than $1 per day. One in five Nigerian children dies before its fifth birthday. A 2005 study noted the intensity of the poverty in Nigeria thus, “80 to 90 […]

RAMADAN, which has just ended, is a time for self-examination and increased religious devotion to the Almighty Allah. The fasting ends when the new moon is again sighted and the Ramadan Kareemeasting and the exchange of gifts follow. During Ramadan, Muslims continued with their prayers five times a day, but after the night prayer is […]