West Africa’s healthcare investment momentum builds as WHX returns to Nigeria
Nigeria’s healthcare sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with forecasts predicting a 7.1% expansion and an anticipated market value of US$161.7 million by 2027. This growth is fuelled by a US$1.2 billion Federal Ministry investment in infrastructure and workforce, major oncology and diagnostic expansions by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, and increased imports under the African Continental Free Trade Area […]
“I suffered brain injury, my lungs collapsed; it is a miracle I am alive”
It is exactly one year, today, 26 August, 2012, since the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja which claimed several lives and shattered the peace of our country.
BOKO HARAM: Their grouse, the solution, by Amb. Carson
This is the concluding part of the abridged version of a recorded exchange during a Sub-committee on Foreign Affairs congressional hearing in America, with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in attendance.
One year after UN House bombing: The horror in a month of peace
It marked the very second time in the history of terror in Nigeria that a suicide bomber would be used – the first being the attack on the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.
State Police! To be or not to be?
The clamour for State Police now a central issue in the counrty have continued to draw interest from all segements of the society.The amber first fired by the Northern Governors had since earned the agitation of the Southern Governors. The heavy onus on everyone who care is, should Nigeria go for state police or not?
Bayelsans differ on state police…
The recent surge of insecurity in some parts of the country may have informed the agitation for state police in some quarters as the panacea to the lingering scourge. But others have kicked against this saying it would turn some state governors into despots.
