Arresting the diphtheria scourge
Nigeria’s continuing diphtheria outbreak is a grim reminder that preventable diseases can become deadly when public-health systems fail to sustain basic immunisation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says more than 10,000 confirmed cases have been recorded in 2026, with Kano, Borno and Bauchi among the worst-affected states. The figures are particularly […]
Threat of immigrants
NIGERIA is under threats from immi-grants. Unlike the thinking in most quarters, the challenge is not only from illegal immigrants. Most of those who pass for legal immigrants have little business, if any, in the country.
INEC’s permanent backwardness
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) makes too many important decisions to be left in its stiff ways.
Don’t sell our national heritage
OUR government has fallen into the “sell it” mode as an all-time cure for national heritages it cannot manage. In this tempestuous mood nothing is sacrosanct.
Banda: A Zambian Lesson
NIGERIAN authorities applaud themselves about fight against corruption. What has kept matters at the noise level is the exclusion of the high and mighty from prosecution. In Zambia it is different.
Judgments: Jiggles, Riddles
CHIEF Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, is concerned about the quality of judgments delivered in courts across the country. She finds a relationship between the judgments and flagging public confidence in the judiciary.
