Ramping up solar option to close energy gap
Nigeria’s electricity crisis indicts decades of failed planning. For a population approaching 240 million, the national grid remains unreliable, while millions lack access altogether. The World Bank’s access series put electricity access at 62.5 per cent in 2024; the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) says more than 85 million people remain without grid power. Installed […]
Benefits of combining sporting talents with education (2)
As earlier noted, there are many benefits in combining sporting talents with education. Unlike some uneducated or not-well-educated footballers, the educated players ensure they enter into contracts that would secure their future. It is, therefore, pertinent for youths who are into sports to also spare a moment to think of life after retiring from their […]
On soldiers forcing herdsmen on communities
LAST week, a worrisome incident was reported in the media, of how 10 soldiers from the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, on December 19, 2020, escorted Fulani herdsmen to Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The soldiers were alleged to have flogged the residents for rejecting Fulani herdsmen’s rights to […]
Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic
THE National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, last week, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and other prominent Nigerians will be among the first set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to allay peoples’ fears and misconceptions about the […]
Preventing avoidable death in Nigeria
ON January 19, 2021, around 8.15 am on the Presidential Boulevard Road near Guarantee Trust Bank opposite Lawson Group School, Kuto, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, a tanker transporting petrol exploded, killing at least one person and burning scores of vehicles. That same day, at about 1.30 pm, another tanker laden with PMS fell and […]
Benefits of combining sporting talents with education (1)
ON Saturday January 9, 2021, Vanguard published the exceptional story of Mrs. Chinedu Uche Azubuike, a former handball player who later became an academic. Dr. Azubuike, now a lecturer at Nigeria’s premier sports institute, the National Institute for Sports, Lagos is one of the many success stories of sports men and women who combined their sporting […]
