Nigeria has seen it all: the good, the bad and the ugly, more in the education sector. A time there was when our graduates from the university were ranked high, mostly above those of our peers and comparable to those from universities ranked top in the world. Students came from countries across the African Continent and beyond to receive education here. Then it was so good and sweet. We were then a proud nation. Then things began to go bad. Lecturers began to abandon classrooms for banks and companies, during financial booms, and government offices, during oil boom. Corruption became…
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The Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital Sokoto chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (UDUTH-MDCAN), has told the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that members of the union were not favoured by the minister of Labour, Chris Ngige in anyway. ASUU had issued a press statement titled: “Attempt To Further Polarise and Sectionalise ASUU, through Selective and Bias Payment of Salary to Selected Professional Medical Members of ASUU UDUS by the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige”, claimed that Ngige was biased in paying selected professional…
A 54-year-old Yohanna Danladi has allegedly raped his step sister’s four year old daughter in Barkin Kasuwa of Mangu local government area of Plateau state. The state Police Command has also arraigned Danladi at the Jos High Court. In the suit No. PLD/J88C/2021 between the Commissioner of Police and Mr Yohanna Danladi, the police averred that the culprit was remanded at the Jos prison over an alleged rape of a 4-year-old minor whose mother is of the same parentage. The defendant of case has been standing trial on a one count charge of rape which happened on January 16, 2021…
After a lethargic start, the campaigns for the 2023 elections have finally taken off and the political atmosphere is heating up. My point today is that we must not allow it heat up to the boiling point when it might explode. The campaign started rather late because the ambient reality, the unhealthy elderly men that are the leading candidates needed to take time off, visit their doctors in Europe to get doped with performance enhancing drugs – to be pumped up with anabolic steroids and other stimulant drugs so that their old, sick and tired bodies can stand the strain…
Yesterday, I raised concern over the APC strategic retreat held in Abuja and organized by the Niger state APC Governorship candidate, Honorable Umar Mohammed Bago. Only for me to receive a call from the Governorship candidate this afternoon telling me he was disappointed with what I wrote and that if he wants to hold a meeting or retreat in Abuja, is it my business to tell him where to do his retreat? I told him that I am not telling him where to do his retreat but raising an opinion over holding the retreat in Abuja and it is an…
Confidently and majestically, she strolled to the podium with calmness and unperturbed, she made one minute and fifteen seconds speech, which contained a few key messages. These are the Economic downturn affecting thousands of households in Britain, her inability to achieve her campaign promises, “I recognize though I cannot deliver the mandate”, due consultation, and then announcing her resignation as the British Prime Minister. Planning for the election of her successor. Hundred of millions of viewers watched the video clip with utter shock and disbelief. Few viewers watched her for the first time because she spent only 45 days in…
We are in a new phase of politics hitherto never witnessed in our country. Sure, politicians that lost out in their parties are known for changing platforms. That isn’t new. They call it cross-carpeting. We should, of course, know that the word “Cross-carpeting” does not exist in the English language. Politicians coined it in Nigeria to describe a common phenomenon by which politicians switch political allegiance just to achieve their personal political goals. Here, this is fueled by the politicians’ desire to attain political office or truncate someone’s march towards political victory, unlike in other parts of the world where…
Nigeria has a very young population profile so the current generation may not be aware but in April 1984, the Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, ordered that the Nigerian currency be redesigned. Everybody was directed to deposit their money in banks for safekeeping until the government begins exchanging their old bills with the country’s new currency in a move aimed at catching corrupt officials. The then four-month-old military government had seized power with the objectives of solving the nation’s economic crisis and stamping out widespread corruption. Today, almost four decades later, we have the same President and we are…
The National Association of Nigerian Students in Europe (NANAE) has lauded the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Garba Abubakar for his leadership dynamism and operational innovations at the commission. The Association president, Bashiru Sai’du Muhammad made the commendation in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday. According to him, the innovations by Abubakar at the commission have, among others, tackled delay in registration of companies as well as other areas of its operations. “The leadership dynamism of the Registrar General, Garba Abubakar at the CAC has enhanced the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The appointment…
Over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care You know that phrase, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for life”? Yeah, I hate that phrase; it creates a false dichotomy. Why not do both? After all, it’s easier to learn when you’re not hungry. We often construct a similar dichotomy in global health, pitting relief against development, and assuming only one should happen. For many valid reasons, that one is development. It’s a reductionistic view of global health, and…