After the Supreme Court threw out the legal challenge by Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the February 2019 presidential poll last week, two things flashed across my mind. One was a song, the other, a quote from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which I’d read over 40 years ago.

By Oraye St. Franklyn “How can I be responsible for the delay? How do I bury my father when I don’t have the body? If I decide now to bury my father and Seinye still has an action in court in Ghana, how do I do it?” – Son of late Chief Lulu-Briggs, as reproduced […]

By Adewale Kupoluyi THE prevailing insecurity in the nation is fast manifesting with the incessant attacks on university students. There is hardly any week that passes by that one case of robbery is not reported at the off-campus hostel accommodation. During the attacks, cellular phones, laptop computers, jewellery, clothing, cash and other valuable items of […]

EVERYDAY day we read about huge outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases on pages of newspapers. Yellow fever is one of the vector-borne, vaccine-preventable diseases endemic in Nigeria and has been a source of persistent outbreaks over the years despite the fact that we have a very effective vaccine, available at no cost to patients in every public health care centre in Nigeria.

It would not have been a surprise if after some roles were moved away from his schedule, the Vice President is seen slowing down and doing less.