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Need for improved regulations in healthcare

The evolution of regulations in healthcare has been a complex and iterative process, influenced by several factors including advances in medicine and technology, shifting social and economic conditions, and evolving political and public attitudes. Healthcare regulations have developed to address…

Positioning sports for commercial viability

According to the National Sports Policy 2022 of the Federal Government, sport has been reclassified as a sustainable and relevant industry, rather than just a recreational activity. This change has led to a renewed focus on the critical role that…

Beyond rumours and stories, By Simbo Olorunfemi

The story of Access is that of two audacious young men who chose to dream, follow up on their dreams by taking on the industry in a different and unprecedented way…. Between both men, they took on a path that…

The limits of shock, By Dakuku Peterside

In Nigeria, many policies that are supposed to catalyse economic growth end up making things worse and complicate matters for the citizen for whom these policies are designed to enhance their quality of life. Recently, two significant policies typify this:…

Local companies to produce passport

In a significant move aimed at fostering economic growth and self-reliance, President Tinubu’s administration has announced its intention to support local companies in the production of the Nigerian passport. Under the leadership of Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Ministry of Interior…

United States of Nigeria? Why not?, By Wole Olaoye

It is in the spirit of restructuring, of building the Nigerian pyramid from the bottom up, that Adesina’s call for the renaming of the country as the United States of Nigeria should be understood. What we have at the moment…

When public agencies go rogue, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Bobrisky. Photo credit: EFCC …the leadership of the Commission clearly abused the sacred instrument of prosecutorial prerogative and showed itself as either idle or misguided, if not both. When this was brough to their attention, they descended into threats, bluster and…

Role of nursing in addressing climate change effects on health

In recent years, the global discourse on climate change has intensified, and its profound impact on human health is becoming increasingly evident. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Nigeria, where the nexus between climate change and health poses significant…

Nigeria’s economy is open, fragile and susceptible

Today, all economies in the world are open to each other. Thanks to globalisation which makes the practice of autarky impossible. Japan and China, at different periods and levels of development, were able to close their economies with little interaction…

Do Palestinian lives matter?, By Femi Fani-Kayode

Image credit: cpt.org Does blood not flow through the veins of Arabs and Muslims in the same way that it flows through the veins of Westerners and Christians?.. Is the blood of Westerners redder than the blood of Arabs?… Do…

Building Nigeria, brick by brick, By Fredrick Nwabufo

President Bola Tinubu It is one reticular hoop. One niche subsisting on the other; one outcome depending on the other and vice versa, and one thread cascading down on the others. A breathing filament runs through the nexus of security,…

Bobrisky and Jesus, the tax collector, By Festus Adedayo

Bobrisky In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities were classified as “unnatural crime against nature,” while sodomy got punished with, sometimes the death…

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