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Why We Must Reshuffle Approach To Defeating Coronavirus

As the number of Coronavirus cases increase in the country, it is high time that the current strategy by the government is reorganized and a more holistic plan instituted. The number of cases now stands at 442 and community transmission

Controversy Lingers Over Federal Government’s Palliatives Disbursements

As Nigerians are beginning to look forward to the much-expected government relief for the Coronavirus pandemic shutdown, the new parameters stipulated by the Federal Government (FG) for palliatives distribution has continued to generate an outcry by the public. Initially, when

The Hide and Seek Game of The Presidency

After days of calling out, name calling on social media, criticisms on all media platforms, the president finally spoke to Nigerians for the second time on the 29th of March, 2020, since the outbreak of corona virus in Nigeria. This

Public Unrest During Lockdown Further Exposes Bad Governance

For about three days now, there have been incessant reports and cries of citizens living in Lagos and Ogun states experiencing armed robbery attacks, rape, murder, burglary and other forms of violence. Still holed up in their respective abodes due

Coronavirus Relief Palliatives Divides Government Branches

Legislative members of the National Assembly and officials in the presidency may have been set for a rare public spat since the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration began in May 2019. Less than 24 hours after Governor Seyi

Government Palliatives During Coronavirus Lockdown Might Be Going To Wrong Hands

An unseemly sight was witnessed early this week in Lagos, as the Federal Government declared lockdown began in earnest – trucks bearing supposed palliatives from the Lagos State government parked in some streets and attendants threw bread at crowded bystanders.

Takeaways From The President’s COVID-19 National Address

At last, after the entire rank and file of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been put on blast, the President addressed the nation in a televised broadcast on Sunday, March 29. In the pre-recorded address run via the Nigerian

Politicizing The Coronavirus Outbreak

Events in the past few weeks since the index patient of the Coronavirus disease, otherwise known as COVID-19, was isolated show a trend of underground politicking at play. It reveals what could be some level of politicking at play in

Ripples across the Nation as Nigeria Records its First COVID-19 Death

As early as when the world started reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria initially seemed immune to the confusion as it took a while to record its first case. Then as soon as the index and second

The Morbid Silence of President Buhari in a Time of Need

The Nigerian Head of State, President Muhammadu Buhari, is conspicuously missing in action in a time of need. While it may appear to some that he is observing a self-quarantine from the electorate that voted him into power, seeing the

The Power Dynamics Between Governors and Kings

While the dust of the shocking dethronement of the erstwhile Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was yet to settle, the open letter which a host of powerful Obas in Yorubaland of southwestern Nigeria sent to the incumbent Governor of

New Wins For The Nation On The Coronavirus Pandemic

Nigeria may have yet again achieved zero COVID-19 coronavirus patient with the second patient, who earlier tested positive but with no symptoms has now tested negative. This second case – one of those who were quarantined after having been in

ThrowBack Thursday – Abeokuta Women’s Revolt (1949)

The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt, also known as the Egba Women’s Tax Riot, was a resistance movement championed by the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU) and led by two middle-class women, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti and Grace Eniola Soyinka, in the late 1940s.

Is The Buhari Administration Trying to Sink Nigeria Into A Debt Trap Again?

Reports reaching media channels on Thursday, March 6, indicated that the Senate has approved the $22.7 billion loan request which the presidency presented to the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly recently. With the impending economic crisis which the recent

ThrowBack Thursday – Nnamdi Azikiwe: The First Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria

While Nnamdi Azikiwe was running nationalist newspaper in Ghana he became a mentor to Kwame Nkrumah who later rose to be the first president of Ghana. He founded and became the editor of a newspaper as soon as he came

The Struggle To Rescue Lagos By PDP

As the news of the coronavirus patient zero was preparing to ripple across the country early on Friday, February 28, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was also rounding up it’s reconciliation meeting aimed at uniting the different warring factions within

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