Why Nigeria must invest in mangroves preservation
Nigeria and the world are bleeding biodiversity at an alarming rate. Globally, the United Nations (UN) reports that 420 million hectares of forest, which is roughly the size of the European Union, have been lost since 1990, with mangroves vanishing even faster at 35 per cent of their original extent. In Nigeria, the Niger Delta’s mangrove […]
New policy on foreign medical trips
IF what the Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu said recently is anything to go by, then we may soon see a sharp drop in the incidence of sending public officers abroad for medical treatment.
Burden before new NYSC DG
THE assumption of office by Brigadier- General Nnamdi Okorie-Affia as the new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) coincides with the commencement of the 2011/2012 service year of the scheme and 38 years since it was established.
Another two years to kill polio
The Federal Government has set another two years for the eradication of the obstinate polio virus from the country. This happened when Microsoft chief and Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, led his team to pay a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday, September 29, 2011.
Tasks before CJN
IN the history of Nigeria since independence, the judiciary has never been exposed to the kind of public opprobrium it experienced at the twilight of the tenure of the immediate-past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.
Nigeria @ 51: Matters recurrent
NIGERIA celebrated its 51st independence anniversary on a rather sober and scarry note as the Federal Government shelved all funfair that should accompany such an event.
