Nigeria must protect the classroom
“Can Education Survive Attack: The Resilience of Human Communities” is the theme of this year’s International Day to Protect Education from Attack, marked on 9 September. This is very apt for Nigeria as schools reopen for the 2026/2027 session. For a country where children are abducted from schools, the occasion is a painful reminder of […]
COVID-19: Why due process matters
ON Sunday, March 29, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation, outlining the policy direction for combating the new Coronavirus pandemic. The highlight of that event was the imposition of total lockdowns on Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. Legal luminaries, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN; Femi Falana, SAN; Ebun Adegboruwa, SAN; Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and others, […]
Protecting our villages from coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has remained till date largely an urban scourge, with most of the officially-documented cases and fatalities situated at the upper levels of the socio-economic pyramid. This is because the pandemic was imported by the globe-trotting elite. Within the lower levels of the socio-economic pyramid, COVID-19 is erroneously tagged a “big man’s disease”. […]
COVID-19: Encouraging show from our men of means
CHINESE billionaire, Jack Ma, leads the battalion of the world’s moneybags who have risen with their resources to help defeat the raging Coronavirus pandemic. He is pushing millions of units of test kits, face masks, protective clothing and medical equipment to countries in Africa, Asia and hard-hit USA, the pandemic’s new epicentre. Also, America’s billionaires: […]
Buhari’s COVID-19 package (2)
HAVING heard from President Muhammadu Buhari the measures the Federal Government is taking in partnership with states and patriotic individuals to contain the Coronavirus pandemic, there are further measures we want to see in the comings days. We must all bear in mind that though the Federal Government and President Buhari must provide the leadership […]
Putting Eastern Ports back to work
“THE long awaited FEW3 service, which is a direct service from the far East into Eastern Nigeria has started, and we are here to witness the first call”. With these words, the Commercial Manager of West African Container Terminal, WACT, Mr. Noah Sheriff, on March 16, 2020 welcomed KYPARISSIA, a gearless 4,800TEU capacity Maersk ship […]
