Between Atiku and Buhari: Just The Facts Ma’am, Just The Facts – Reno

This piece is an attempt at a discourse on the Nigerian public health sector and the general problems facing heath care management with the singling out of one –- lack of good training schools for medical practitioners to access world class specialized medical education –- whose eventual overcome, has to be the irreducible minimum in the foundation for a solid heath sector.

When in 2006, His Excellency Babatunde Fashola, contested the governorship election of Lagos State, with the slogan “Eko o nibaje”, I tried to find the meaning which I was told was “Lagos must not spoil”. The slogan did not sound serious to me then.

Since last Wednesday’s visit of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the Akure residence of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the media, particularly the social media, have been awash with commentaries and analyses on the visit. Writers have hit the highway overdrive, analysing, speculating and conjecturing. Some of these analyses have been interesting to say the least.

President Muhammadu Buhari has to use his less than two more years in office to prove he’s an astute defender of the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria he sworn to protect by obeying every provision of the nation’s grand norm. That includes a provision in the Nigerian Constitution with regard to a fair and even distribution of senior official positions all over the Federal Republic for him to be taken seriously. 

Former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, marked his 60th birthday last week. Many other politicians, especially those of his soar-away status, would otherwise have sought to bring down the sky, to let the whole world know they have entered the diamond pantheon.

THERE is no doubt the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources; Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has emerged stronger despite the distractions that came knocking at his door some few months back.

Concise Compendium of Umunede History compiled and authored  by Hon. Frank Igwebuike Chief the Honourable Frank Igwebuike gave an abridged historical overview of  the ancient town Umunede. The town is located in an undulating plateau about sixteen kilometers from Agbor on the west, sixty kilometers from Asaba on the east.

Do we have a budding Grace Mugabe in Nigeria? – Reno

In a democracy, the relationship between and among the three arms of government are constitutionally circumscribed.  The powers of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial arms of government are provided for in sections 4, 5 and 6 respectively of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended 2011).