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 […]
Maiduguri flood, a national emergency
The residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and other vast areas of the North-East, woke up, Tuesday last week, to the invasion of massive floods which came as a result of a breach of the nearby Alau Dam after sustained rainfall. Video footages showed hundreds of houses and vehicles submerged by the flood. Residents […]
Remembering Premier M. I. Okpara
About 40 years since he died, the second Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, was honoured on August 22, 2024 with a lecture and awards event that was graced by many eminent personalities in Abuja. Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, who played a leading role in making the event a […]
Charging protesters with treason is absurd
Barely 15 months into his tenure, the government of President Bola Tinubu has recorded more direct assaults on the civil rights of citizens than all the other elected regimes combined since 1999. Throughout President Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight years, very few incidents of human rights abuses, press freedom violations and the harassment of civil society groups […]
Delay of duty-free food imports
Any serious and proactive administration would compel officials to sleep in their offices, if necessary, to cut through the red tape and bring the needed food relief into the system
Turji’s purported olive branch
Bello Turji Kachalla (or simply Turji), is a 30-year-old bandit/terrorist who has constituted himself and his thousands of gangsters into a nightmare for the people of Nigeria’s North-West, especially Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger states. He is to the North-West what the late Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, was to the North-East. The […]
