Editorial
Power belongs to the people
IT seems that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is hellbent on repeating the blunders that its predecessor, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, committed in its 16 years in power
Beyond jailing Prof for election fraud
TWO years later, the long arm of the law caught up with a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, when a High Court in Akwa
Attempt on Gov Ortom’s life
PENULTIMATE weekend, the security crises which had rocked Benue State and indeed, the whole country in recent years reared up once again, this time with an assassination attempt on Governor
The Lagos-Badagry Expressway needs urgent attention
RECENTLY, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was in Badagry to commission some projects. First, we cannot help but wonder how the governor possibly got to Badagry by road. Did
Man shall not live by meat alone
THERE is a long list of circumstances in the history of our world in which good have proceeded from bad situations; the herders-farmers conflict in Nigeria could turn out to
Nigeria’s poor universal health coverage
UNIVERSAL Health Coverage, UHC, as defined by the World Health Organisation, WHO, is the presentation of healthcare systems in a way that provides a specific benefit package to all members
Burna Boy: We can be twice as tall
IT has gone down history that Nigeria’s popular musician, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, best known as Burna Boy, became the first Nigerian to win the Grammy, the world’s biggest music award
Nigeria’s woeful water situation
YESTERDAY, March 22, 2021, was World Water Day, a universal annual celebration created to focus attention on the importance of one of the most precious resources on earth. Water makes
Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order
FOR the second time in quick succession, President Muhammadu Buhari mandated the armed forces and security agencies to implement his shoot-on-sight order against anyone found “illegally” with AK-47. He restated
Wase’s outrageous conduct
THE recent outrageous conduct of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase, while entertaining a petition from a constituent group within the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, NIDO,
