By Eddington Obaro Jonathan THE computer age is slowly giving way to a new age, the age of virus. Not too long ago the world was fighting the Ebola virus, one of the deadliest viruses in human history. All over the world, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel made huge sacrifices, sometimes at the expense […]

By Issa Aremu MANY leadership types abound, from the “ascribed”, to the “achieved”, the “inspirational” to the “complacent”, “libertarian” to the “authoritarian”, from the “redefining” to the “transformational”, “single leader” to the “collective”, “conservative” to the “revolutionary” ad infinitum. But that was before the outbreak of the novel COVID 19, first documented in Wuhan, Hubei […]

By Lolo Cynthia Ihesie As cities observe a total lockdown in Nigeria to curb the spread of coronavirus, cases of rape and sexual assault are spiking, with about 80 million women and girls trapped with abusers. For too many, the home has become a battlefield for girls and women subjected to gender-based violence. As part […]

By Emma Agu WHEN the Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, announced that he was going into self-isolation because he had made contact with a person who had tested positive to the COVID-19 virus, the attention was, as usual, erroneously focused on how that came about, instead of the leadership lesson embedded in his action. […]

By Iorhem Ephraim Akase ABOUT 174 years ago in the city of Vienna, a young Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis stumbled across a link between pathogens on the hand and the spread of communicable diseases. His solution – a mix of hand washing and instrument sterilisation between seeing patients – cut his hospital’s childbed fever […]