The recently concluded World Immunisation Week (24–30 April), was an opportunity to reflect on the benefits of vaccines and their vital roles in safeguarding the health and well-being of families and children in particular.  Vaccines are effective tools to prevent infectious diseases. They have been proven safe and effective. Vaccines have saved countless lives and […]

The death of Pa Ayo Adebanjo on February 14, 2025 at 96 has robbed the Yoruba nation and indeed Nigeria of one of the dogged fighters for an egalitarian society. The progressive politician, lawyer and elder statesman was born on April 10, 1928, in Isanya Ogbo-Ijebu, Ogun State. Until his death, he remained true to […]

Two-time undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, deserves accolades for the shining example he continues to exhibit as a Nigerian super-patriot, despite the fact that Nigerian boxing administrators once frustrated him off his bid to represent the country at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Joshua, who has his ancestral […]

Despite concerns about the state of the economy and worsening insecurity in the country, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has continued to hugely benefit from unbroken stream of high profile defections into its ranks. Indeed, the former self-styled “largest party in Africa” which once boasted it would rule for 60 years – the Peoples […]

The wanton killings in the Middle Belt areas of the country have continued unchecked with the reported massacre of about 144 people in Plateau and Benue states in the last two weeks. Nothing can be more horrific than the extermination of a family of eight and the confirmed death of no fewer than 52 persons […]