Category: OP-ED

These are desperate times the world over. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has taken a number of steps in the right direction in our battle to contain the pandemic. Some of our state governors are also proving their mettle by their actions, while some others are trivialising this crisis and putting their people at risk with pedestrian rhetoric and stupid actions.… Read More

The world was awoken from slumber concerning the global health challenge posed by  Coronavirus pandemic not too long ago which was first reported in Wuhan in far away China. As the death statistics were increasing daily and reported on the world’s news media, the other continents thought that it was Chinese/Asia affair only and did not envisage that the virus… Read More

The riches of the few in Nigeria are an injustice to the multitude of poor Nigerians. I lay awake in the night thinking of the inhuman conditions in the land. The poor majority stagers to the rest of humanity needing love and facing their own death.  In this part of the world, citizens are not free to share what nature… Read More

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW) was launched in January in response to pervasive cases of witch persecution and related abuses in Africa. AFAW’s main goal is to supply the missing link in the activism and campaign for the eradication of witch-hunting in Africa. However, the mission faces so many challenges. First of all, African witchcraft has largely been misrepresented… Read More

Someone just send to my inbox a letter addressed to the Chairman of the National Assembly and the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid 19 on the purported distribution of the palliatives given to Adamawa State by the Federal Government for delivery to the vulnerable groups (the poor of the poor) in our society.  The writer, one Umar… Read More

Yesterday April 11, at exactly 9:30pm, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control announced a total of 318 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria through its website and verified social media accounts.  Analyses: 70 discharged, 10 deaths and 238 active cases.  However, a further look at the data released by the NCDC shows that the number of discharged patients are under-reported which,… Read More

  “The Man dies in all who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” Said Professor Wole soyinka. Many Nigerians do not understand the term “Revolution” as many perceive the word to mean threat just has as being portrayed by their government. Haven’t said of how so many Youths see their fellow Youths in the Revolutionary line as gangs of young people with no dreams going… Read More

My wife and l are Medical  Doctors practising in Ile Ife Osun state. While my wife works with OSHMB. I have a private hospital in Ile Ife. l had to drive my wife to her place of work this morning with the private hospital ambulance (Name of the hospital well written on the ambulance with Doctors stickers on the windscreen).We… Read More

Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventiveness is born, as well as discoveries made and… Read More

The world is currently faced with a deadly pandemic known as Coronavirus or Covid-19. It is about the worst global health crisis of our generation. Politically, socially and economically, we are all exposed to the tragic consequences of the plague. Social, economic and political lives of nations and communities have changed for good. From Lagos to Rome, New York to… Read More