Opinion

When under the auspices of the federal Government of Nigeria, the central bank governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele influenced the banning of 45 items/products that he reckoned could be produced locally in Nigeria from being imported and pilling needless pressure on...

With more than 7000 confirmed cases and 250 deaths across 45 African countries and two territories, as at April 8th, the corona virus pandemic is gradually rising in the continent. Despite limited human resources, critical shortage of medical supplies and...

Influenza or flu, as it is commonly referred to, has been known to result in death from other causes, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure or pneumonia. However, for many years, cases of influenza have been...

The 2020 Grammy awards had most Nigerian music followers home and abroad anxiously waiting for Burna Boy to be crowned best foreign art on the night. Many followed Burna's tour round the world, from the Daily Show with Trevor...

Whenever man is confronted with a terrifying aspect of the world in which he lives, his natural instinct is to seek to understand the new phenomenon and bend it to his will. Pre-historic man opted for ritual as a...

Something must definitely be wrong with Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) if they would-as they did yesterday- dismiss the important national broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari as “disappointing,” a speech for which the European Union, through their Ambassador to...

The novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) is ravaging the earth as economic and social restriction continues with no end in sight. As of April 14, Covid-19 has infected over 1.9 million persons and killed almost 200,000 globally. In Nigeria, the confirmed...

The conundrum: Do we sustain the lockdown to contain coronavirus and risk the upsurge of insecurity and citizens' unrest or do we lift the restrictions and find other means of controlling the spread of COVID-19? For a country like Nigeria...

Journalism in Nigeria is on the decline, and its credibility is steadily being destroyed.  The solution lies in the hands of practitioners.  They can reverse the trend if they have the courage to admit the problem.  But how prepared...

"If the poor are not sleeping because they are hungry, then the rich will remain awake because the poor are awake" - Anonymous. A writer was reflecting on the realities that the current coronavirus has thrown up and one of...