Nigeria has recently intensified efforts to eradicate tuberculosis, TB, a persistent public health challenge. Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has been pivotal in driving these initiatives, aligning them with President Bola Tinubu administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda. What are Nigeria’s TB prevalence rate in a global context, endemic zones, historical […]

The recent meeting between the Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), and the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, on tackling substance abuse among Nigerian youths in higher institutions is a welcome step in confronting a deepening crisis. Nigeria’s university campuses, which ought to be […]

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, paid a working visit to President Bola Tinubu last week. A highlight of the meeting was her positive comment on the performance of the Nigerian economy under the president who has just completed 26 months in the saddle. According to her, while speaking to media: […]

The Federal Government took decisive steps last week to quench the fire of controversies rocking the aviation sector. Just as the tide of public opinion was turning in favour of Miss Comfort Emmanson, the Ibom Air passenger in the vortex of alleged violations, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, issued a statement on […]

On Wednesday July 9, 2025, the Federal Government revisited an area in which successive regimes have failed – malnutrition. At the Nutrition and Food Summit held in Abuja, a presidential aide on public health, Uju Anwukah, confessed that Nigeria ranked second globally in malnutrition, especially among children and teenagers. This ugly and embarrassing disclosure was […]

The Sokoto State Government needs to give a deeper rethink to its intention to compulsorily hold down beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme for 15 years before letting them leave and explore other personal growth opportunities. At a recent courtesy call by the Sokoto Professionals Association, SPA, in his office, the Deputy Governor, Idris Gobir, disclosed […]

In a few days, the administration of Oluwatosin Ajayi in the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, will clock one year. The Director General was appointed on Monday, August 26, 2024. He took over from Yusuf Bichi, whom President Bola Tinubu inherited from the regime of the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Its core mandates include […]

Governor Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State committed a major blunder on Thursday, July 31, 2025, when he ordered the immediate shut-down of Badeggi Radio 90.1 FM based in Minna, the state capital. He accused the station of inciting the public and promoting violence against his government. He also ordered the seizure of the station’s […]

Fuji musician, “King” Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, KWAM1, was last week Wednesday embroiled in a Nollywood-like drama that baffled many at the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAIA. In a viral video, he was seen in front of a Lagos-bound, departure-ready Value Jet aircraft, arguing with some officials. The aircraft suddenly moved, almost with a […]

Northern elite sang discordant tunes at a recent public forum over the humongous number of “Out-Of-School Children, OOSC”. Nigeria holds the unenviable record of harbouring the highest number of OOSC in the world (about 20 million), and the North produces over 80 per cent of them. At the Government-Citizen Engagement Forum held in Kaduna on […]

It came as a massive relief over the weekend when the Nasarawa State Government debunked reports of the collapse of the main flyover bridge in Lafia, the state capital. According to them the bridge, which was recently commissioned by President Bola Tinubu, cost N16bn. In a statement, the government said the videos depicting the live […]

The Nigerian public health sector is currently enveloped in a morass of mass actions by service providers, especially trade unions of doctors and nurses. This has become an embarrassing annual ritual due to the failure of Federal and State governments to comprehensively address the welfare concerns of the workers. Caving to pressure from highly placed […]

Anti-Nigeria sentiments by disgruntled Ghanaians which have been brewing in social media erupted last week into organised street protests in major Ghanaian towns like Accra…

Super Falcons of Nigeria, Saturday night in Rabat, reaffirmed their position as the most successful women’s football team in Africa as they lifted the new-look Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON,…

It is no secret that Lagos and Nigeria in general are grappling with a plastic pollution crisis. Drainage channels choked with plastic bags and Styrofoam packs are a common sight,