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 […]
Police raid of Labour House
Organised Labour (Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliate unions), were not officially part of the recently-ended #EndBadGovernance protests. Labour appears to have chosen to focus specifically on the core needs of its members rather than being the ombudsman of all socio-economic mass actions. This may be because Nigerians hardly […]
Protest: Justice for slain Zaria teenager
According to Bloomberg Television, the #EndBadGovernance protests claimed 13 lives on the second day, being August 2, 2024. But the fatality that took the attention of all was the killing of a 16-year-old Ismail Mohammed in Samaru Zaria, Kaduna State, by soldiers despatched to quench a riotous situation in the university town. A video surfaced […]
Protests: Metaphor of Russian flag
Usually during protests, aggrieved citizens display the national flag even if they are fed up with the government of the day or its policies. It is a means of reaffirming loyalty to the nation. During the historic #EndSARS protests of October 2020, Nigerian youths from all ethnic divides gathered at the foremost “holy ground” of […]
Ethnic profilers must be punished
“I, …do solemnly swear/affirm that … I will discharge my duties to the best of my ability, faithfully and in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the law… that in all circumstances, I will do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favour, affection or […]
No to palliative governance
There is a Chinese proverb which is very popular among contemporary economists and leaders: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for life”. The path a government chooses in its economic policy making and implementation tells much about its intentions towards […]
