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When President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in as president in 2015, Nigeria was, in many ways, politically different from what it is today. Five years ago, all the 36 state governors…
Shuaibu, a former Editor of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers, is based in Abuja.
When President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in as president in 2015, Nigeria was, in many ways, politically different from what it is today. Five years ago, all the 36 state governors…
For over a week now, close to 100 new cases or more of COVID-19 are reported in Lagos every day. The state now has more than 3,500 cases. Though not…
There are hundreds of communities in Nigeria that are underserved when it comes to banking services. Step out of any state capital into smaller towns, and try to use an…
Jeremy Corbyn, the immediate past leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom during the last general elections campaigned on a promise to abolish private schools. His reasoning was that…
Senegal is country with roughly the same population with Kano State in Nigeria. There are maybe two million more people there than in Kano, which has about 14 million people.…
Three months ago, very few Nigerians knew of the existence of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Even fewer had heard of its director general, Dr. Chikwe Iheakweazu. But…
Sitting at home for a few weeks seems like the easiest thing to do. It’s meant to be a break from the usual daily routine that gives most people a…
They heard about the possibility of an anti-malaria drug, chloroquine as treatment for the coronavirus. Worried about getting sick, a couple in their 60s mixed chloroquine phosphate with liquid and…
It has been less than 100 years when Nigerians intending to perform the Hajj planned years ahead because they had to walk all the way to Saudi Arabia. In those…
Italians are known to always find a way around inconvenient laws and rules they just don’t like. They even have a name for this social character trait of theirs, furbizia,…