Opinion

OPINION: COVID-19, AN AWAKENING

Human coronaviruses, first characterized in the 1960s, are responsible for a substantial proportion of upper respiratory tract infections. Since 2003, at least 7 new human coronaviruses have been identified, including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, which caused...

OPINION: THE CBN N100 BILLION CREDIT SUPPORT FOR HEALTHCARE

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has released guidelines for operations of N100 billion credit support for the healthcare sector following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. In a circular signed by Kevin Amugo, Director Financial Policy Regulation...

OPINION: THE LOVE FOR MAKE-BELIEVE AND UNNECESSARY PROPAGANDA

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Despite the danger posed by coronavirus, it has become the source of make-believe and unnecessary propaganda for the ruling party and her associates. Rather than take direct measures to check the escalation of the ailment, all you see are...

OPINION: IN THE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT ON IMO STATE NIGERIA DIES

Preamble The title of this article, “In the Supreme Court Judgment on Imo State Nigeria dies,” is solitarily a concise paradigm that captures the incredible tragedy of injustice at its capacity in contemporary Nigeria. As sad and dishonorable as that judgment...

OPINION: FACING FISCAL REALITIES IN BUDGETARY MATTERS

The Federal Government proposed the reduction of oil benchmark, upon which the 2020 budget was predicated, from $ 57 to $ 30 per barrel. The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, announced this after a meeting between the executive arm...

OPINION: STRATEGIES FOR ALL TO IMBIBE, AND LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE SPANISH-FLU PANDEMIC OF 1918

It is often said that if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Going by this, we have to critically take a look at the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 in light of the current day...

OPINION: WAYS AFRICA’S FREE TRADE AREA COULD HELP MITIGATE EFFECTS OF COVID-19

AfCFTA can be a mechanism for building long-term continental resilience The coronavirus (COVID-19) that has so far claimed over 14,500 lives globally as of 23 March has strengthened the case for intra-African regional value chains and trade, according to the...

OPINION: BUHARI’S COVID-19 SPEECH IS LIKE FINE WINE WITH A BIT OF VINEGAR

President Muhammadu Buhari was presidential in his address to the nation on coronavirus (COVID-19) on Sunday. He got off his accustomed armchair; stood up and spoke to Nigerians like an unfeigned commander-in-chief. I could see the sense of urgency...

OPINION: COVID19: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW CAN KILL YOU

I planted a tree I scorned the fruit I used its trunk as firewood I made a lute And played a tune I smashed the lute Lost the fruit Lost the tune I wept over the tree Because What you don't know can kill you... It is hard to remember...

OPINION: MAKING SENSE OF OSHIOMHOLE’S REPRIEVE

Once upon a sociopolitical space, there was an unknown ‘Edo Boy’, who came into limelight through the Textiles Industry, where he was a paid secretary of its Union. (Conventionally, paid secretaries are never made political heads. But Adams Oshiomhole...