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Coronavirus pandemic is spreading like wildfire across countries of the world. The pandemic has brought to the fore the need to re-examine police response in COVID-19 affected countries and to possibly shape police agenda for pandemic policing. While, it is no longer news that the virus is fully in Nigeria since the index case was recorded on the 24th of… Read More

Okay, let me deadpan and say 2019 was a remarkable year for me, and particularly for my health. I am among the unfortunate percentile that suffers from chronic heart disease (since I have been on medication for close to 20 years). In early March 2019, the chest pains became regular and increasingly severe after any strenuous activity or a spell… Read More

We love staring at present we stabbed in the past and blinking into future we have no plan for.  We sow wind but do not want to reap whirlwind. We are a people that engages effect by putting the law of causality in abeyance. To the average Nigerian rulers and their lackeys on dinner table, they cannot understand why trust… Read More

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 and bend it to his will. Pre-historic man opted for ritual as a means of mollifying and dominating his environment, but man soon moved from the age of rituals to the age of science,… Read More

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