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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

     I met Eldred Jones personally for the first time in 1982 undera circumstance I have found delightfully unforgettable. From his base in Sierra Leone he had been invited to the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) for a professional engagement. But before leaving home, he never forgot to tuck in his travelling bag a file containing the manuscript by a rookie academic, submitted and accepted for publication… Read More

At long last, the Nigerian Government has directed all tertiary institutions in the country to work out modalities of taking their classrooms online. It is not as if this is a spectacular achievement on the part of the government, but at least, it is a positive response to the calls I have been making as regards the need for Nigerian… Read More

In the nearly two weeks of lockdown so far in most Nigerian cities, we have seen great acts of charity by individuals, groups and institutions. Many have gone the extra mile to share what little they have with friends, neighbours, and even strangers, who have little or nothing. And in one inspiring example, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, a US-based Nigerian author and… Read More