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 […]