“TO every disadvantage,” says the American philanthropist, W. Clement Stone, “there is a corresponding advantage.” The coronavirus pandemic is yet to be over, but it has changed and continues to change our lives in significant ways. The challenge now is for us to strive to accommodate the positive changes the pandemic has espoused. Before the […]

ON pages 10 and 18 of the book, AWO, The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, published in 1960, the author revealed the incredibly low level of hygiene in his Ikenne community around 1920. Awo wrote: “In a society where most people did not have anything at all like a bath more than half-a-dozen times in […]

NIGERIA witnessed a spontaneous growth in sports in her early history of nationhood. Indeed, even before independence, competing under the British flag, the Union Jack, Nigerian athletes won laurels for the country. The likes of Hogan Kid Bassey (World Featherweight Boxing champion in 1957), and Richard Iheatu, also known as Dick Tiger (World Middleweight Boxing […]

NIGERIA, like many countries, does not know the exact number of her people infected with COVID-19. What is known is the infection status and number of people that have been tested. Only those tested who returned laboratory-confirmed infections are counted as confirmed cases. Testing is the window into the burden of the pandemic, and a […]

COMPROMISING the integrity of the election is responsible for many political crises in many countries. The civil war fought in Nigeria (1966-1970) was remotely connected to the heavily rigged 1965 elections in the old Western Region. Stealing of votes led to bitter and violent protests, a chaotic situation which some young, adventurous army officers believed […]