MORE than 10 million Nigerian children do not have the opportunity to attend school, and that is the highest rate in the world. Even at that, many of the children who are lucky to be in the classrooms come with ragged or torn polythene school bags. That is the true story of Nigeria told on […]

It is impressive to observe the determination of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to follow through with the laudable cashless policy which it introduced into Nigeria’s banking system. As the apex bank had explained, the cashless policy is aimed at scaling up financial inclusion and reducing cases of armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism financing, advance […]

THE step taken by the National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, in passionately appealing to the Federal Government to grant students a two-week break to enable them participate in the 2023 polls, is in the right direction. We, therefore, join NAPTAN to make the same appeal to all concerned authorities. NAPTAN’s appeal was stimulated […]

LAST Monday, January 23, 2023, came the shocking news of the barbaric beheading of the kidnapped Sole Administrator of Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu. Ohizu was said to have been butchered on Sunday after the N6 million demanded by his abductors as ransom had been paid. The chilling act was […]

IN recent years, there has been increase in cases of cancer worldwide. Hyuna Sung, Rebecca Siegel and Ahmedin Jemal, employed by the American Cancer Society, estimated that worldwide, about 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths occurred in 2020. In Nigeria, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO, more than 100,000 […]

ON Sunday, January 15, 2023, at about 3 am, armed Islamic terrorists in a renewed attack on Christians, invaded the Parish residence of Reverend Father Isaac Achi of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, along Daza Road, Kafin-Koro, Paikoro Local Government Area, LGA, of Niger State. The killers set Rev. Achi’s house ablaze, burning him […]

Over the years, several conditions such as incompetent leadership, official insincerity, economic failure, police brutality, corruption, youth unemployment, strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; herdsmen attacks, banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram terrorism and many other horrible conditions, have coalesced into a national anger to bring Nigeria to a critical juncture. As Daron Acemoglu […]

WITH a combination of technology and environmental-friendly behaviours, humanity will overcome the climate change crisis. There are lots of hope. The key to solution lies in clean and renewable energy. Our actions should not be based on the opinions of profit-driven businessmen who dubiously employ and compromise dishonest scientists to cast aspersion on electric vehicles, […]

THE Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, at the end of its 206th National Executive Council meeting last weekend in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, bemoaned the toll which excessive medical tourism by Nigerians, especially the political class, has over the decades, taken on the country’s health sector and economy generally. AMLSN lamented that […]

MANY years ago, a legal luminary said that after God, the next most powerful entity in the world is government. This power, derived from the people, flows from government’s exercise of monopoly of legitimate violence. With this fantastic power and right the men who act on its behalf have to openly wield military-grade weapons, even […]

LATE arrival to collection centres and early departure of INEC officials is one of the identified causes of the frustrations Nigerians are facing in collecting their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs. Swelling of crowds at some centres caused by delays in identification of owners of the PVCs is another major problem.  In sensitive transactions as obtains […]

What initially appeared as mere allegation may have started taking a semblance of truth as indications continue to unfold that some staff of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, are actually working hand in glove with some politicians to rig the 2023 general elections. Since the Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, collection exercise began on January 6, […]

WHEN patterns and pictures that preceded a monumental calamity begin to reappear on stage in the current affairs of a society, it is a signal for discerning members of that society to spring into action to avert a repeat of bitter history. As Nigeria observes the Armed Forces Remembrance Day on Sunday, let us also […]

THE Mental Health Act of 2021, which replaces the Lunacy Act of 1958, has been applauded by psychiatrists for quite a number of reasons. First, the Lunacy Act was cruel and outdated.   Unlike the old law, the Mental Health Act of 2021 guarantees the rights of those with mental health conditions. For instance, any person […]

THICK black smoke billowing into the sky at night is a common sight in Nigerian cities, especially in Lagos. One may be forgiven to think it may be a house, a vehicle, or a landfill on fire, if one has never had the opportunity to get nearer one of the sources of the smoke to […]