Atiku’s Border Promise: Between political expediency and Nigeria’s national interest
By Okey IBEKE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to reopen Nigeria’s land borders if elected president in 2027 may appeal to traders and border communities who depend on cross-border commerce. But the promise raises a more important question: what exactly does he intend to reopen? The Federal Government has challenged the premise of the […]
The filth called Boko Haram and a season of shame
Permit me to begin this contribution with some basic truisms: Firstly that God is great and that He alone forges the destiny of nations and rules in the affairs of men. Secondly that He is faithful and true and that He alone is worthy of our fear and of our praise. Lest despair and despondency set in, it is right and proper to always remember this and to continue to reiterate these truisms given the horrific things that we are witnessing on a daily basis in our country today. This is a season of brutality, sadness and fear.
National conference and Itsekiris exclusion brouhaha
IT was simply natural that angry reactions had trailed the initiation of the National conference recently, coming as to did from the Itsekiri nationals all over the country, who had felt and rightly too, that they were being willy-nilly exorcised from the Nigerian nation, an insalubrious development that assumes dilating significance and irony when the commander in Chief happens to be a fellow delta who must here been living and interacting with the Itsekiri on a daily basis in the past to the surprise of Nigerians the Ijow have over to people representing and no one ogori and itsekiri .
Together, we can make progress against neglected tropical diseases
In Nigeria and across Africa, neglected tropical diseases, NTDs, are a daily reality for many children, families and communities. Despite efforts to control and eliminate them, trachoma, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, onchocerciasis (river blindness), soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis continue to threaten Nigeria’s citizens. NTDs disable and disfigure more than one billion people around the world. Beyond the lives impacted, NTDs also limit economic productivity and development, helping to perpetuate a vicious cycle of poverty.
Fact-checking journalism gains momentum
The facts are the focus as part of a trend in journalism spreading from the United States to many places around the world.
Foreign policy decisions – Let’s make haste slowly
THE Russian Federation on the one hand, and the US and her NATO allies on the other hand, are presently engaged in a cold war of sorts over the Russian annexation of the Crimea part of present day Ukraine. Economic and diplomatic sanctions have been announced against Russia; the Russians, on their part, have placed sanctions on some US interests.
