Category: Leaders

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 with complexities and depreciable socio-economic indices, imposing restrictions on movement for an extended period of time — asphyxiating the economy… Read More

Oppressors gyrate to see the oppressed people bow and applaud them, but the current plague devastates their whole system since it affects them and their cronies. A hopeless man has nothing to rely on; he will utilise his last energy wisely for him to survive. Also, a neglected pregnant woman only has little hope with the local midwife who might… Read More

Many Nigerians had foreseen that this would happen. This being the robbery attacks that have almost become commonplace in the South-Western part of the country especially in states like Ogun, Lagos, and Oyo. Many who had thought that any theft cases or robbery incidents would manifest only by household food items being forcefully carted away since the federal government did… Read More

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