THE EXPRESSWAY OF AGONY
The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway deserves significant attention There was some mild relief last week as the Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was opened to traffic. The failed stretch,...
View ArticleTHE ABULE ADO TRAGEDY
It is yet another avoidable tragedy Last Sunday’s multiple explosions at Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin local council of Lagos State was yet another avoidable tragedy. At the last count, some 20 people,...
View ArticleFighting Troops And Mental Health
The authorities could do more to ensure sanity of soldiers in front line The tragic instances of soldiers going out of their minds and wasting lives at both the front line and after returning home in...
View ArticleDISOBEDIENCE TO COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
It is in everyone’s interest for public officials to obey rules and regulations Once again, the impunity with which senior public office holders and top politicians in the country flout simple...
View ArticleTHE SPIKE IN SUICIDE RATES
The limping economy may be contributory to the problem According to some recent statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO), no fewer than a million people die annually from suicide, which...
View ArticleResponding to The COVID-19 Pandemic
The authorities could do more to contain the transmission of the viral disease The signs are ominous. The number of Nigerians infected with COVID-19, the deadly viral disease that has become a global...
View ArticleA Case For Condemned Inmates
The practice of keeping convicts perpetually on death row is a violation of their rights It is an inherent violation on their rights and dignity to keep people interminably on death row, especially for...
View ArticleViolent Communal Land Disputes
Frequent clashes impact negatively on governance and the economy No fewer than 12 persons were recently killed and scores of others injured following a communal clash between Ebom and Usumutong...
View ArticleADDRESSING BLINDNESS IN NIGERIA
The health authorities should pay more attention to people with visual impairments One of the most neglected health challenges in Nigeria is blindness, with reports suggesting that 1.6 million persons...
View ArticleRISING BURDEN OF CERVICAL CANCER
The authorities should give attention to this public health issue The most prevalent types of cancer in Nigeria are breast, cervical, prostate and colorectal. But the number of deaths arising from...
View ArticleEnforcement of The Lockdown
Security agencies should be civil in enforcing the restriction of movement to stem the spread of Covid-19 The killing last Thursday in Warri, Delta State, of a young man allegedly by one of the...
View ArticleLET’S STARVE LECTURERS TO DEATH!
Alade Fawole argues that the government is maltreating academics at the nation’s peril Let me state it very plainly: I subscribe to President Muhammadu Buhari’s government’s policy that Nigerian...
View ArticleLOCKDOWN AND HOMESCHOOLING
It is important for parents and caregivers to treat this period as a short holiday, writes Bidemi Nelson The global closure of schools in the wake of the Corona Virus pandemic was an obvious safety...
View ArticleCOVID-19 SCARE: TIME FOR HUMANS TO EVOLVE
I believe in God. My belief is enunciated in the Roman Catholic Credo. Now, in this twenty-first century, with much scientific knowledge around, belief in God can be reconciled with belief in the...
View ArticleA MUDDLED BUT NOT MASKED VOICE
The advice from John Selden’s ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ could be rewritten for President Donald Trump as ‘Do as I say, not as I don’t’. His musing that ‘I think wearing a face mask as I greet...
View ArticleUNANSWERED QUESTIONS FROM AKURE EXPLOSION
The authorities owe the public lots of information about what happened in Akure. While still reeling from the tragic Abule Ado explosion in Lagos which claimed more than a dozen lives, another...
View ArticleAVERTING DRUG SCARCITY IN NIGERIA
For now, government should remove bottlenecks on drug importation In January last year, the Chairman, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMG-MAN), Dr. Okey...
View ArticleOne Nation, Many Destinies
The Oxfam report is a wake-up call The reality of the Nigerian condition was recently brought home by Catholic Bishops when they spoke to the hunger, hopelessness and deprivation that pervade the...
View ArticleHAZARDS POSED BY DOMESTIC WORKERS
Background checks are necessary before domestic workers are hired From a former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure to the Chairman of Credit Switch Technology to a Lebanese...
View ArticleWIKE, CAVERTON AND MATTERS ARISING
The dispute is unnecessary The arrest and detention of two pilots and the closure of Caverton Helicopter offices in Port Harcourt by the governor of Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike has continued to...
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