THE latest cholera outbreak in Nigeria erupted about a fortnight ago in several states of the Federation. These include Lagos, Cross River, Delta, Abia, Katsina, Imo, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, and Zamfara and 20 other states. Earlier this week the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, reported 1,141 cases nationwide, with Bayelsa and Lagos states recording […]

In February this year, heads of relevant federal agencies such as the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, gathered in Abuja and issued the Season Climate Prediction, SCP, or weather outlook for the year and their possible implications for agriculture, flooding, aviation and disaster […]

The only item of public interest in President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day 2024 speech was the steady move towards enacting a new national minimum wage law. The rest was mere run-of-the-mill. It contained very little of the challenges that our democracy faces and efforts to tackle them. The most outstanding of these is the controversy […]

Today, June 17, 2024, is Desertification and Drought Day, an international day set aside by the United Nations to draw attention to desertification and drought, two of the most threatening geographical situations which breed misery among the world’s populations. The day serves as a reminder for individuals, communities and governments to take action in order […]

Zamfara State remains the hotbed of bandit terrorism in Northern Nigeria. It was from here that bandits, consisting mainly of Fulani nomadic herdsmen who turned to crime, spread to nearby states such as Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger and the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Governor of the state, Dauda Lawal, was recently […]