Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
A day to celebrate our women
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 […]
As FG moves to sell off select assets
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, […]
Rising cost of healthcare in Nigeria amid COVID-19
Nigeria’s health care system has long been held down with challenges such as under-funding, manpower shortages, inadequate facilities and poor equipment, among others. In the public healthcare institutions run by federal and state governments, there is the usual shortage of healthcare personnel, and patients, in addition to buying their own drugs, are usually required to […]
One year of COVID-19 pandemic
ON February 27, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the first coronavirus, COVID-19, case in Nigeria. It originated in Wuhan, China but came into Nigeria through an Italian national from Milan, Italy. Nigeria and the whole world have been subjected to a pandemic of hitherto-unimaginable proportions which brought socio-political, economic, industrial and trade activities […]
Lateef Jakande’s indelible footprints
Since Second Republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, LKJ, answered the call of mortals, it has been tributes galore. This is not surprising given his life of exemplary leadership that won him the reverence and goodwill of a vast majority of Lagos residents. Babakekere, as he was fondly called, died on Thursday, […]
