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Nigeria announced its first COVID-19 case on February 27 – an Italian who came into the country on February 24 and displayed symptoms of the disease while visiting Lafarge Cement Company in Ewekoro, Ogun State. He has been treated and discharged. Since then Nigeria has recorded a total of 111 cases, as at the time […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, China’s National Health Commission reported that there were zero new domestic cases of the coronavirus in the country, including Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak in China, a monumental shift from months ago when new cases were adding up in thousands. The claim was a bold one to make, and not surprisingly […]
Continue ReadingDownpressor man Where you gonna run to You gonna run to the sea But the sea will be boiling You gonna run to the rocks The rocks will be melting You drink your big champagne and laugh all along that day You can run but you can’t hide You can’t bribe no one Them no […]
Continue ReadingIn my present state of lockdown and shutdown in metropolitan Europe, I’m reminded of the days of our childhood in Ekiti. In the near term, society lockdown has been the stock response to the uncontrollable outbreak of epidemic disease since classical antiquity. According to Prophet Mohammed ‘When you hear that (a plague) is in a […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, what a dramatic week in our Federal Capital, Abuja! We suddenly woke up to the most unusual headline: BUHARI TESTS NEGATIVE, ABBA KYARI TESTS POSITIVE. Whaaat, I screamed. My initial reaction was that of incredulity. I did not think of the possibility of these two gentlemen being exposed to the corona virus, but […]
Continue ReadingNorthern politicians had just concluded their meeting in Lagos with the Chief Minister of pre-independent Nigeria, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. A few were now gathered in the office of the Federal Minister of Land, Mines and Power, Alhaji Muhammadu Ribadu, with a number of northern bureaucrats, also part of the colonial administration. When it was […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the news broke that the Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president, Abba Kyari, tested positive for COVID-19. Three of his aides reportedly also tested positive. Same Tuesday, it was announced that the Bauchi State governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed, also tested positive. Then, there is the son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, […]
Continue ReadingIn his book, “From Third World to First, The Singapore Story,” former Singapore leader Lee Kwan Yew (LKY) revealed how his country’s development miracle, including the forging of a nation out of a disparate assemblage of immigrants, was accomplished in one generation. It is a big book, nearly 700 pages long. But is a riveting, […]
Continue ReadingThis is my third commentary on the Corona virus pestilence (see “E ku Corona o” – ThisDay, March 3, and “Amala and the Corona virus patient” – ThisDay, March 10), and now, three weeks later, the most important subject still remains this mysterious plague that has changed the way we live, the way we think, […]
Continue ReadingThe Buhari government is notorious for binge borrowing and does it with so much impunity, throwing this generation, and indeed, the future generation, into bottomless debt. Binge borrowing has been on in the last five years, amid so much poverty, and this country has very little to show for it. This government cares less about […]
Continue ReadingSight, the king of the five senses, is superior to touch, taste, hearing and smell. But sight is inferior to insight. I contemplated this truth last week when I interrogated the essence of a man whom life blinded with a vicious uppercut. But, instead of lying floored on his back in defeat, he rose up […]
Continue ReadingIf citizens of the world didn’t know that they lived in a global village, the COVID-19, otherwise known as the Coronavirus, has demonstrated this starkly. Virtually all parts of the world have paused on account of the ravaging pestilence, with very earth-shaking implications for the global economy. Even world leaders with war-like inclinations have come […]
Continue ReadingWhen six-year-old Ifedola’s school closed last week, she came home with some folders, some books and a Tablet. “A Tablet”? I looked at my wife incredulously. “Yes, for distance learning”, she responded. The school had forewarned all parents (by direct email) that, by the orders of the Austrian government, it would be closing on that […]
Continue ReadingWhen a friend asked me to handle the keynote address for their women’s retreat, I accepted on one condition that I would be allowed to speak from the heart. The theme of that particular retreat was ‘securing your home.’ Not a few women in that gathering expressed bewilderment when I mentioned showing grace to fellow […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, as much as I tried to resist the temptation of offering any advice whatsoever to President Muhammadu Buhari, let me apologise, that because of the recent global crisis that the world faces I will have to do a volte face. It is therefore with a heavy heart that I confess that I’m unable […]
Continue ReadingAt the risk of sounding like a broken record and no matter what some persons might think or say, I will continue to say that there is total lack of leadership in all aspects of our national life. The current leadership of our serially forsaken and immeasurably betrayed country is more interested in its own […]
Continue ReadingOn October 1, Nigeria will celebrate her 60th year of political independence. Our diamond jubilee is a remarkable milestone worthy of significant documentation even as the country is deeply immersed in the crisis of nationhood. In furtherance of this objective, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) and partners are launching the Sixty […]
Continue ReadingThe idea of a security outfit to serve as our watchdog isn’t a bad idea. In fact, it is welcome, especially when one goes back to the events of only a few years ago, in Ondo State where criminal elements had the audacity to kidnap a Yoruba leader. At that time, and every time such […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, while in the Aso Rock Villa, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State tweeted photos of himself and the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), perusing still images from the Abule Ado explosion. Vexed by the scene, many Nigerians responded that Buhari should have visited the explosion site and not be served photos from […]
Continue ReadingDespite the fact that Nigeria recorded its first index case of COVID-19 on 27th February and five new cases yesterday, (eight in all), President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to personally take ownership of a crisis that has already sent the 2020 budget spinning like a yoyo. A barrel of crude is now selling at $29 […]
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