Rebuilding our primary healthcare system
The first point of contact for Nigerians seeking medical attention ought to be the nearest primary healthcare centre. That is how every functional health system is designed. Primary healthcare is the foundation upon which effective disease prevention, maternal and child healthcare, routine immunisation, and early treatment rest. Sadly, Nigeria’s primary healthcare system has become a […]
No Looting, No Loathing In Japan
JAPAN is not new to tsunamis. The first recorded one occurred on 28 November 684. The number of tsunamis in Japan totalled 195 over a 1,313-year period (to 1997). On the average, there is a tsunami every 6.73 years, the highest rate in the world.
INEC’s plans to end rigging
THE indecisiveness of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has ensured that two weeks to the elections, the list of candidates remains a conjecture. INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has admitted that a syndicate in INEC was fiddling with the list, he promised to handle the matter.
Surplusage Of Freedom
ARE we to take the Senate serious when it claimed while passing the Freedom of Information Bill, it was providing surplusage of freedom? The mere suggestion that there could be too much freedom and access to information is that the type of thinking that quickly tells us why the country will not make much progress soon.
Between Bankole and Sanders
THE scandal in whatever transpired between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Sanders, is as much in what was reported as in the silence that has greeted the revelation.
Challenges For World’s Billionaires
TO be a billionaire in most of the world’s currencies, except those that are valueless, is a feat. When the figures are reckoned in dollars, they set the individuals apart and present for them challenges that are no longer ordinary.
