Malami: Portrait of a ‘Barrier-in-Chief’, By Godwin Onyeacholem

Much as one tries, it has been difficult to find something for which to commend Nigeria’s current Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. He has been the chief law officer of the country since he was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the take-off of his administration in 2015, and re-appointed in 2019 as Buhari…

June 29, 20200Comments

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Nigeria: Looking ahead to a planned future under PMB, By Sufuyan Ojeifo

Will the world and its economy return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic? The answer to the above question will probably be in the negative. Already, the term, “the new normal”, which has gained global currency suggests that the world, as we knew it before COVID-19, would never be the same again. Apart from thousands…

June 29, 20200Comments

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Buhari: Death Stalks Nigeria As COVID-19 Rebounds

By now, if we are a serious nation, we would be taking stock of how the battle against Covid-19 was waged. The infection gave Nigeria a good two months head start to begin the preparation of how to tackle it before it landed on our shores. It had started decimating lives in January and February…

June 29, 20200Comments

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NBC’s Sixth Code of Expired Values

Monday, June 22, 2020 was an unusually tragic day in Lagos reinforcing the pre-existing atmosphere of multiple rape cases all over the country. On that day alone, two couples were found dead in their respective apartments in different parts of Lagos. In each of the two cases, the man had killed the woman as punishment…

June 29, 20202Comments

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Buhari On National Security: Too Little, Too Late, Too Narrow

What really would be the legacy that President Muhammadu Buhari would want to live behind? Many writers have been wasting their time asking such inane questions since Mr. President won his first presidential election. I do not think that Buhari is bothered about such things. Legacy? What legacy? Before asking such questions, it should not…

June 25, 20200Comments

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With 258m widows worldwide, Nigeria needs to stop social stigmas that create exclusion, and discriminatory or harmful practices on hers

By Ms Hauwa E. Shekarau, Founder/Executive Director, Women, Law and Development Initiative (WOLDI) The 23rd day of June every year has been set aside by the United Nations, by virtue of Resolution A/RES/65/189, as “International Widows Day” to draw attention to the voices and experiences of widows and to galvanise the unique support that they need.…

June 25, 20200Comments

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Edward Colston, History Wars and the Legacies of Slave Owners In Nigeria, By Abdulbasit Kassim

Should our society continue to honour the legacies of slaveowners and those who played active roles in the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trade? Should our society continue to name monuments, schools, streets, stadiums, and other landmarks after them, even though we are all aware of their dark legacies?… This is about historical accountability and the…

June 23, 20200Comments

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Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster

Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne…

June 9, 20200Comments

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African elections and COVID-19: A crisis of legitimacy

‘The combination of a pandemic and emergencies is lethal to both campaigning and competitive politics.’ By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Confronted, in COVID-19, with a foe they cannot bribe, detain, or shoot, African governments across the continent find themselves desperately short of options. Despite ample notice about the arrival of the coronavirus, Africa’s governments did little…

April 28, 20200Comments

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ANALYSIS: Should we wear masks or not? An expert sorts through the confusion

As a professor at Boston University’s School of Medicine and a geriatrician at Boston Medical Center caring for the most vulnerable in this pandemic, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about COVID-19. It turns out there is good science out there that helps us know what masks we need to wear and when to wear them.…

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