Growing fears over increased antibiotic resistance
More than 6,000 deaths a year could be caused by a 30% fall in the effectiveness of antibiotics in the US, a report in The Lancet suggests. It said most of the extra deaths would happen in patients...
View ArticleSprits of Ogoni martyrs live on
Twenty years ago, the Nigerian state, then under military rule decided to silence the Ogoni people. The alleged offence committed by the Ogoni people was that they had the temerity to reject the...
View ArticleIs Buhari the ‘Moses’ of our time?
As the biblical Moses who became a circumstantial leader of the Israelites because of their suffering in ancient Egypt, President Muhammadu Buhari has emerged as another interventionist leader in the...
View ArticleContinuous marginalisation of Idoma People in Benue State: An intolerable...
This thing is getting out of hands and I think if it were not quickly addressed, it would degenerate into something else. Is it not enough that we cannot be the Governor of Benue State even as the...
View ArticleGolden garlands for Tambuwal
One bright January morning, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was immersed in his private library at his home when I walked in, uninvited. At the door, I was informed...
View ArticleHow to let go bitterness & forgive those who hurt you
How many times have you been wronged in your life and desperately want revenge to even the score or to put your mind at rest? Countless times without any doubt. You can’t eat or sleep because your...
View ArticleAgents of our dark past
As soon as he was declared successor to Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion as governor of Edo state, Professor Osarhiemen Osunbor was in Lagos for a meeting with a cream of the country’s media. He seemed...
View ArticleAbba Moro, villain or victim
THIS IS certainly not the best of times for the immediate past Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, on whom the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has slammed an 11- count charge...
View ArticleEnd violence against children on Nigerian roads
IT TAKES the heart of courageous parents to bury four children on the same day. I had wondered if I could celebrate a funeral with a gaze on four corpses in front of the sanctuary but I did that on...
View ArticleRe-energising our women through power
It is said that women are the salt of any nation. Train a woman and you train a nantion. Empower women and a nation is empowered. Sadly however, this truth seems to have been lost to successive...
View ArticleAdamawa @ 25: An improbable story
IT’S AN improbable story. Imagine any of the destitute young children we see today: begging on the street, herding cows, selling water. Now imagine them grown up to be successful business people,...
View ArticleNiger Delta: Amnesty beyond patriotic patronage
It was for noble intentions and the need to placate the restive Niger Delta (ND) militants when former Nigeria’s President, Late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua exercised his constitutional power by granting...
View ArticleIf Mark Zuckerberg were a Nigerian
The habitually hurly-burly boulevard of Yaba resurrected to its daily commercial routine oblivious of the impending coming of a global big wig to its environs. A personage of the caliber that would...
View ArticleChange Begins With Me: Another propaganda or diversion?
Yes, President Buhari rightly said it: Nigeria today is passing through a challenging moment where hardly anything works in a normal manner and many have attributed this phenomenon to the total...
View ArticleLibya does not need tears
The British Parliament this week is diverting world attention to another of its infamous Reports that tell you what you already know, contain no new information or insight, and has no tangible...
View ArticleChange begins with President Buhari, his cabinet and me
Nigeria is sick, no doubt about that. Even before it was officially announced that we are a nation in a recession, the foetus still in the womb knew something had gone wrong. Nigeria, like any other...
View ArticleThe Partisans’ portrayals of the critic as a hater
Perhaps it’s sub-clinical, but partisanism as exhibited by Nigerians appears to be no more than just uncritical loyalty to a political party. It’s a psychiatric dilemma. Perhaps again this is only my...
View ArticleThe world in 2017: An African’s perspective
The world is at war. In most parts, this year that marks the Centenary of the First World War, is witnessing horrendous conflicts. In that war, the main actors proclaimed, ‘no more wars!’ Twenty-three...
View ArticleLingering crisis over local government creation
There is a lingering problem over the way and manner local governments have been created arbitrarily in this country. The problem became worse under the military. Some call it military nepotism and as...
View ArticleDanger in APC’s forceful scramble for acquisition of Rivers state
IT Is noT difficult for any discerning mind to know that the Police High Command may have been complicit to the opprobrious outing during the recent Rivers State legislative election rerun. The prelude...
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