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There is no single person, regardless of position or experience who has a monopoly of good ideas. It can be extremely limiting if you must depend on the versatility of your ideas alone. The reason…
Nigeria remains a huge village in darkness with national gird regularly in trouble, underperforming or in plain language, collapsing. The darkness continues to thicken as the country ages, yet the sector continues gulping more funds successively. Even when the sector…
Last week, a father of four children lamented to me how things had become miserable for him due to the current economic situation. He told me how he barely performs his duties as a responsible father and husband to his…
This is the Israel of Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu, a bloodthirsty, deluded and demonic meglomaniac and tyrant, who is not a Jew in the true sense of the word but rather a bloodlusting and fascistic Nazi and flaming Zionist… His is…
Late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in his early musical ensemble days as Africa ‘70, recalibrated a folklore that told the story of food shortage and hunger. The folklore, which Fela entitled “Alujanjankijan” brims with the motif of greed and its implications. The…
Be careful what you trust God for. The beginning of the year is the season when the merchants of God tell the tallest tales about God. They tell us to trust God for all kinds of things in the coming…
Malaria is a disease condition that we had cause to deal with on this page in 2013 in a two-part essay. We return to the topic today not because there are no other diseases to discuss, but because malaria continues…
On May 29, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, arrived at the Abuja venue of his second term inauguration in luxury and style: a customised 2019 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class S 560. Value: over N61m. President Buhari, in his decades-long self-advertisement, was…
Our discussion on probiotics has generated questions about what uses fermented pap water can be put to. I would like to address that. When making tofu, popularly known as soybean wara, there is always the need for a coagulant. Some…
In February 2000, the Côte d’Ivoire national football team was locked up in a military camp for days after crashing out of the African Cup of Nations. Having won the cup in 1992, Ivoirians expected nothing less than a stellar…
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of the CBN] …in the wake of the floating of the naira, some of the variables shaping the value of the national currency – including…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As the President said: “Health is not merely the absence of disease but the embodiment of physical, mental, and social well-being. It is a fundamental human right and Nigeria’s commitment to achieving Universal Health Care Coverage…
Architect of OKOBI, Professor Kenneth Amaeshi. Beyond their economic potential, the Siamese twins of CEDI and OKOBI need the buy-in and support of the political class. Given that both are geared towards the people and grassroots, it makes sense for…
Breaking into warehouses which have been legitimately used by business owners to store their products through the years is ill-advised and ultimately counterproductive. It may become an unwitting signal for miscreants to raid stores and businesses under the pretext that…
The clinical manifestation of sickle cell disease is diverse. Among them are leg ulcers, which are relatively common and can be painful and disabling. Leg ulcers tend to heal slowly over months to years. The pain is severe, excruciating, penetrating,…
In a nutshell, AI is set to transform practically all aspects of life, alongside the economy of a nation. But I doubt if it is being used much across the world to tackle the menace of smuggling. The Nigeria Customs…
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