THE new Coronavirus pandemic has sent the world’s fighting forces on temporary vacation. Apart from areas where Islamic insurgents are active, the world’s armies are in a virtual quarantine. As the common enemy that faces mankind is invisible, vicious and unpredictable, a different kind of troops have been deployed to exterminate it: medical personnel, consisting […]

THERE is a growing consensus that the Coronavirus pandemic is bound to become a change agent by the time it is over. The way the disease has generated mortalities even in the developed world (Europe, Asia and America) despite their advanced health systems will surely rush political leaders and experts back to the drawing boards […]

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, returned to its old “hobby” of indefinite strikes on Monday, March 23, 2020. This came after its two-week “warning strike” which commenced on March 9, 2020. According to the Union’s President, Biodun Ogunyemi penultimate Monday, the strike became necessary because “the Nigerian government has chosen to use hunger […]

WE are proud of Nigerian medical doctors and health professionals who have unanimously rejected Federal Government’s plan to import 18 Chinese doctors to assist Nigeria in tackling COVID-19 spread in the country. On Friday, April 3, 2020 the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed that a special flight would bring the Chinese doctors along […]

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, […]