IT has been eleven weeks since the war on the new coronavirus diseases was declared at the Federal level by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 30, 2020.  As the pandemic rages, some of the most sophisticated healthcare systems in the world were made to look ordinary, with millions of people infected and hundreds of thousands […]

DESPITE broad hints by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that President Muhammadu Buhari would make his fourth pandemic national broadcast on Sunday, May 17, 2020, nothing of the sort happened. It was Boss Mustapha, the Chairman of the Task Force, who informed Nigerians of what might have been the President’s address during PTF’s routine […]

IF you tell an average Nigerian that our country’s healthcare system ranks 187th out of 192 countries he or she will not be surprised. Evidences of our shambles of a health system abound everywhere you look. Even our leaders who have the mandate to change the sordid state of affairs in our social sectors such […]

WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari made his second national broadcast on the coronavirus pandemic on April 13, 2020 and said that the regime’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme, HSFG, would continue even after schools nationwide were shut for the pandemic lockdowns,  Nigerians were shocked. People wondered how school children could be fed by the Federal Government while […]

THE Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the Bank Verification Number, BVN, and the Treasury Single Account, TSA, were technology-based instruments to fight corruption and money laundering at source and sanitise government spending. IPPIS, in particular, was meant to digitalise the payroll of the Federal Government and eliminate the ghost worker syndrome whereby corrupt […]