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 […]
Bode George – Hypocrisy Continues
IT is so easy to condemn the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for celebrating the return from prison of Chief Olabode George, a former naval officer, on whom the PDP has hung its ambitious electoral plans for the South West, especially Lagos.
Wanted: A President for Nigeria’s poor
STUDIES confirm Nigeria as one of the world’s poorest countries. Nigeria has one-fifth of Africa’s population, more than 80 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day, the standard international bar for poverty.
Debates About Debates
FOR Nigerians, everything calls for debates. Sometimes the debates are about the insistence of some that there should be no debates on any issues.
Sad, Abba Aji Remains In Presidency
ABBA Aji, a former senator, a presidential liaison officer in the National Assembly is proud of his pedigree for being in the news for all the wrong reasons since he joined the Presidency.
Don’t Take Nigerians For Granted
THERE an unceasing tendency for Nigerian leaders to take the people for granted. It begins with an exaggerated importance of their office and extends to the divine justification in which Nigerian leaders clothe their actions.
