ON Tuesday, April 21, 2020, Chief Richard Osuolale Abimbola Akinjide, a legal giant who played prominent roles in Nigeria’s chequered history, passed on. The late elder statesman was a nationalist, administrator, politician, teacher and journalist whose impact on our legal and political firmaments dates back to the First Republic. For instance, he served as a Minister […]

IF our coronavirus battle was only a matter of speechmaking we would deck President Muhammadu Buhari in flying colours. For the third time in a row since he came into the picture of this pandemic, Buhari touched most of the right places during his Monday, April 27 national broadcast setting the date for a partial […]

THE government of Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State, has continued to project an image of responsible governance. While still demonstrating great capacity in the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in the nation’s epicentre of the pandemic outbreak, the governor did not forget the promise he made to victims of the blast that killed 23 […]

MORE than 20 years after the end of military dictatorship in Nigeria, some uncouth political office holders have continued to display residual military mentality. They sometimes go out of their way to attempt the excesses that even the military did not. On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, the Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, made an […]

JUXTAPOSED with our population, Nigeria’s Coronavirus numbers are among the smallest in Africa and the world at large. With 782 confirmed cases, 197 recoveries and 25 deaths as at Wednesday, April 22, 2020, a false sense of being on top of the pandemic might be difficult to shake off, especially among politically-minded elements in government. […]

THE responses of state governors to the Coronavirus pandemic seem to have fallen into two broad categories: those ready to take charge and those waiting, as usual, to be spoon-fed by the Federal Government before they do the needful in their states. It was in this pandemic that those who had doubted the leadership capacities […]

THE sad demise and burial of Mallam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, after contracting the Coronavirus has exposed the typical irresponsible attitude of high government officials. This sort of misbehaviour has made it difficult for governance to produce fruitful results in Nigeria. It has demonstrated in the full glare […]

THE Advanced English Dictionary and Thesaurus defines “stigmatise” thus: “To accuse or condemn or openly or formally brand as disgraceful”. Persons suffering social stigma are avoided, marginalised, rejected, or banished, with unsavoury rumours peddled about them. Two main sources of stigmatisation are the commission of abomination and being inflicted with a terrible, contagious disease, such […]

LAST week Wednesday (April 15, 2020) the enforcement of the Coronavirus lockdowns in some states, especially Anambra, Ebonyi, Delta and Kaduna turned bloody, with at least 21 people shot dead. Media analysts quickly observed that this death toll in one day of bizarre law enforcement almost doubled the number of deaths linked to the pandemic […]

TO their credit, the All Progressives Congress, APC, was the first major political party in Nigeria that made monetary payments to the poorest and most vulnerable in our society part of their campaign promises in 2015, though some officials of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government initially attempted to deny it. Public pressure, criticisms and the benevolence […]