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 […]
Bauchi, Borno, Plateau: Mounting security challenge in the ‘axis of death’
Borno, Bauchi and Plateau are northern states with Borno and Bauchi being in the north east while Plateau is in north central.
Fear of Jos, Maiduguri, Bauchi killing fields ahead of April polls
All too suddenly, or so it seems, the 2011 elections, which many across the world have been looking forward to for assessing if Nigeria will get it right this time around, are just around the corner. The elections seem to have crept in suddenly because many of the issues that ought to have
IBB & Delta State creation … Prof Omoruyi’s account not well informed – Prof Oyovbaire
Former information minister, Prof. Sam Oyovbaire, tackles erstwhile director general of the defunct Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof. Omo Omoruyi, over his account of the creation of Delta State. Excerpts:
The true story of Delta State creation, by Otobo, Akpeki, Tosanwumi
LATELY, there has been nothing as controversial in Delta State, comprising chiefly the Anioma (Ndokwa inclusive), Urhobo, Isoko and Ijaw–speaking people, particularly before and after the January 6 gubernatorial re-run, as the creation of the state itself in 1991 by former military President, General Ibrahim Babaginda.
The world of widows: Agony is thy name
It used to be worse, in the time past; but it could be better than it is now: What widows go through inspite of the influence of religion and western culture.
