THE last time we heard about food blockade in Nigeria was over 50 years ago at the height of the Nigerian Civil War. The Federal side adopted hunger as a legitimate strategy to win the war by instituting the blockade of Biafra’s access to the outside world for arms, food, medical and other crucial supplies. […]

UNIVERSAL Health Coverage, UHC, as defined by the World Health Organisation, WHO, is the presentation of healthcare systems in a way that provides a specific benefit package to all members of a defined population, through provision of financial risk protection in the course of accessing necessary health care services. The core concept of UHC was […]

ON March 12, 2021, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, scored another personal goal and brought glory to Nigeria and Africa, when he was elected into the 37-member FIFA Executive Council. The FIFA Council is the highest decision-making organ of the football governing body. He defeated the Malawian Football Association President, Walter Nyamilandu, […]

IT has gone down history that Nigeria’s popular musician, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, best known as Burna Boy, became the first Nigerian to win the Grammy, the world’s biggest music award though some Nigerians had earlier been mentioned in connection with minor Grammy achievements. He was crowned under the World Music Album category for his album, Twice […]

FOR the second time in quick succession, President Muhammadu Buhari mandated the armed forces and security agencies to implement his shoot-on-sight order against anyone found “illegally” with AK-47. He restated this on March 11, 2021 at a meeting attended by the National Security Adviser, retired Major General Babagana Monguno; Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; […]

THE recent outrageous conduct of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase, while entertaining a petition from a constituent group within the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, NIDO, is a blatant example of how low the conduct of public and governmental affairs has sunk in Nigeria in recent years. The member of the […]

On February 16, 2020, the bus conveying team members of Wikki Tourists Football Club of Bauchi, one of the clubs participating in the Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL, caught fire along the Jos-Bauchi Highway. Members of the team were on their way to Uyo for a week-10 league match against Dakkada FC of Uyo. The […]

The Federal Government received the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine over a week ago to vaccinate Nigerians against the coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Government ensured that the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, evaluated the nearly four million doses procured through the the World Health Organisation, WHO’s, COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, COVAX, for […]

WHILE we rejoice at the “good news” of the British Government’s approval of work permits for Nigerian international students who wish to work in Britain after the completion of a UK degree at bachelor’s degree level or above, we must also consider the disadvantage – brain drain. For 2020 alone, out of 13, 000 young […]

Since Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the sufferings of motorists and commuters of the decrepit Lagos-Badagry Expressway have quadrupled. Commercial drivers on that road have withdrawn their services several times in protest against extortion by union officials. Thousands of poor commuters on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway have been stranded, while many have resorted to taking commercial motorbikes […]

One of the major points of advocacy for the 2021 edition of the International Women’s Day, IWD 2021, was the call for gender parity. It was within the light of this year’s theme: #ChooseToChallenge. This year’s event was celebrated with pomp and pageantry by the various social, gender and human rights advocacy groups, and it […]

WE have heard that a clean hand saves life. A paperless policy, besides saving life, also saves money. Papers are made from trees which provide us with foods, medicines, shelter, and stem soil erosion. They lock away excessive harmful carbons released into our atmosphere in the process of our economic activities. These trees of life […]

LAST week, the National Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari had declared Zamfara State a “No-fly” zone as a means of curbing terrorism and banditry there. The president also suspended all mining activities till further notice. “Private jets and helicopters” are alleged to supply arms to outlaws and illegally evacuate the […]

SINCE the United Nations earmarked March 8, every year, as International Women’s Day in 1977, the idea has come a long way since its first observance on March 19, 1911, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. The day is now globally observed to reflect on progress made, to call for […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration is set to dispose of no less than 36 federal properties. The main purpose of this is to raise funds between January and November this year to finance the N13.58 trillion 2021 federal budget. The imminent sales, private/public partnership, PPP, arrangements, concessions and shares/splitting will cover areas such as communications, infrastructure, […]