Opinion

Until somewhere in 2015, I was like many others a consummate fan of   Senator Ita Solomon Enang. He was my model legislator; cerebral,   sublime, profound and perspicacious. On the floor of the House where he   spent a generous 12-years...

I knew this was going to happen sooner than later. Now that Aso Rock and the President's men, the senators, the reps, and the judges are feeling the scorching heat from Sahara, they are crying and acting like puppies...

In this final article in my series of replies to Simon Kolawole’s “The Welcome Party” (THISDAY newspaper of Sunday December 25, 2016), where he condemned the massive celebration Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s release from UK jail elicited in Nigeria,...

Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa’s health workers Dressed in full medical gear and clutching a folder, Folu Songonuga, a physiotherapist, walked briskly across the lobby in the offices of Activa Rehabilitation Services in Orange, New Jersey,...

Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in December 2015 that the global incidence of malaria had finally been slowed, thanks in large part to a massive rollout of mosquito...

Encouraging local production, right policies the way out Approximately 1.6 million Africans died of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV-related illnesses in 2015. These diseases can be prevented or treated with timely access to appropriate and affordable medicines, vaccines and other health...

A Premium Times report by Joshua Olufemi and Richard Akinwumi, published on November 16, 2015 showed that despite spending an unprecedented N1.488 trillion on armaments between 2011 and 2014, the coefficient of correlation between military spending and death toll caused by violence...

Volatile global financial markets and weaknesses in global growth to blame Just three years ago, most of the world’s fastest-growing economies were in Africa, among them Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. A middle class was emerging,...

The Federal Ministry of Finance through a news release dated January 12, 2016, confirmed the completion of the recruitment exercise for the Executive Management team of the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), and has applied for its operational license from the Central Bank of...

The indulgence into criminality by some Nigerians is really strange and   awful. The rapidity and magnitude Boko Haram Terrorism expanded its   viciousness in Nigeria stunned infinitely. The existence of caves in some forests in Kogi state and other parts of  ...