To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari’s death would be to tell a lie. Being an asthmatic patient who routinely had “breathing problems” that necessitated...
We are all living dangerously in a deadly season of Coronavirus. With international and national borders closed, schools shut, businesses shattered, peoples confined and social distancing,...
The proxy war that Saudi Arabia and Iran have been waging in Yemen for the past five years goes beyond the pale of human capacity for...
Some Africans have forgotten how to grow their own food. There used to be a time most Africans could not starve in the villages unless you...
Corona virus disease has continued to dominate discussions world over in the media, at home and sundry other places and we may not stop talking about...
Since the beginning of this year, the world attention is on Corona Virus Disease 2019 otherwise known as COVID-19. What is said to have originated in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It is no longer news that the myth of coronvirus has gone behind Nigeria, as the State and Federal Governments continue to advocate social distancing, self...
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is a flamboyant spiritual head of Love-World Incorporated in Nigeria otherwise known popularly as Christ Embassy. He was based in South Africa but...
The world is passing through hard times and all eyes can see it! Like a trainee actor, waiting for a superstar to mentor him to stardom,...
…A Necessary Call For Biometric Population and Housing Census After the Pandemic It is no longer news that Chinesevirus popularly known as Coronavirus or COVID-19 has...
For a man who is a self-absorbed, power hungry narcissist who wants to be recognized as one of the greatest presidents of the United States while...
The world is currently faced dreadfully with a deadly pandemic known as Corona-virus or Covid-19. It is about the worst global health crisis of our generation....
1 ‘’ *On December 26, 1991**the Soviet Union died and something new was born**something utterly new*- *a unipolar world dominated by a single super power unchecked...
Funke Akindele has an estimated 5% of our population following her across all social media handles. Using her altar ego, Jenifa, she has been able to...
In Nigeria, to infract the law and escape retribution be a cleric or a politician under the sanctuary of the government of the day. Pastors and...
Historically, Ndigbo may not have built big political empires but what Ndigbo did not lack is sense of self-worth and internal organizational abilities. Ndigbo are naturally...
In as much it is inappropriate to underestimate the danger embedded in the escalation of Coronavirus, at the same time, the insensitivity of the government to...
Nostradamus is famed globally as a man who saw tomorrow. He was a great seer, whom God endowed with unbeatable clairvoyance. He could predict the future...
The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a dangerous yet revelatory moment in Nigeria. It is dangerous because this deadly pandemic has infected over a million and...
On the 29th of March this year somewhere in Kogi State (Okenne and Lokoja) an innocuous post on Facebook by one Miss Elizabeth Oyeniyi against the...
The world system is unravelling as nations vigorously pursued national interest in defiance of multilateral institutions and structures.A war is on devoid of tanks,war planes,and nuclear...
Firstly, my thoughts and prayers go to our health workers. These men and women of valour risking it all battling at the frontline of COVID-19 are...
Political and business men of timber and Calibre are back into African Teaching Hospitals they have ignored until this Coronavirus strikes. This is what it takes...
It is almost two decades since the term Economic Development Corridor (EDC) was coined. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was the first organization to use the...
Someone was often helping out a poor guy in his village whom he met whenever he visited home. He had projects there, so the village dude...
One would ordinarily have dismissed the “controversy” around 5G technology and the strange connection with COVID-19 being stridently pursued by some people as ignorant rants occasioned...
Forgive me if I repeat myself. I may have written about some of what I will write about here at a previous recent occasion. I am...
These are very abnormal times. The earth we labored to build is shutting down before our eyes and we have no magic wand. Although we’ve faced...
Although French writers had earlier used the term Industrial Revolution, the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852-83) would be credited with popularizing the term. For Toynbee,...
Subterfuge. Propaganda. Lies. All have a date with truth. The truth is inexorable; it will always extinguish lies and propaganda. Nigeria’s ‘’successes’’ in the war against...
‘’Life is no straight and easy corridor along, Which we travel free and unhampered, But a maze of passage, through which we must seek our way,...
After tremendous pressure, the President decided to come out and give a speech to the nation. This was on the back of very expansive rumours that...
Donald Trump has been everywhere and anywhere talking and postulating about this recent scourge. As we speak, the United States is firmly becoming the latest hotspot...
Since 1999, the majority of people that seems to have been at the receiving end of the dilapidated medical facility, ill-treatment from the unmotivated medical personnel,...
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...
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...
For the intellectual miracle could be described as God’s great supernatural intervention in the natural affairs of men. But for the layman miracle could equally be...
In his words “I wish to appeal to the people of Kaduna state to continue to closely observe the preventive measures already announced. It is most...
Today is my birthday. I thank God for giving me the life and time on earth he has provided me. He has blessed me beyond the...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which has compelled people to stay within their localities, illuminates the genius of the ageless adage: charity begins at home. It...
Dear Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, I have not come gloat over your affliction by coronavirus (COVID-19); I have come to sympathise...
This is my third commentary on the Corona virus pestilence (see “E ku Corona o” – ThisDay, March 3, and “Amala and the Corona virus patient”...
“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as...
The (dis)Honourable Speaker of the Nigerian federal House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, is the fourth man in the constitutional hierarchy. That is, he is the fourth...
In elementary public health, it is common knowledge that the benefits of disease prevention far outweigh those of disease treatment, both in terms of cost and...
Coronavirus (COVID-19), an exorable doom, threatens life on the planet. It is exorable because it is conquerable. This explains why world leaders are taking the charge...