Minister of and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, has been controversial since President Muhammadu Buhari enlisted him in his cabinet, but what happened, Wednesday, last week, took everybody by storm.

Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA and other militant groups suspended hostilities in the Niger Delta region following a two-week ceasefire announced by the Federal Government, June 6.

THIS week has been particularly mind-boggling for Nigerian economy with grim facts about the state of the economy coming from the highest authorities, the finance ministry, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. Naturally too, the various financial markets have reacted adversely to the information – the foreign exchange market, the stock market and the money market, all headed to adverse numbers.

With more than 40 million Nigerians as healthy carriers of sickle cell gene (Hb AS) and over 150,000 babies born each year in Nigeria with sickle cell anaemia (Hb SS), the country is believed to have the largest burden of the disorder in the world. Due to ignorance, lack of access to correct diagnosis/proper care and funding for research, most of these children will die in childhood.

A trip to Igbologun community, located on Snake Island, Lagos, can be scary.