R&D In Nigeria Faces Moment Of Truth
“I hope the lesson will really be that we can’t afford as a society to create the fire brigade once the house is on fire. We need that fire brigade…
“I hope the lesson will really be that we can’t afford as a society to create the fire brigade once the house is on fire. We need that fire brigade…
Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, has been in hot water lately. It’s hard to sympathise with him because he jumped into the cauldron with his eyes open, wearing his trademark black…
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…
In the fight against COVID-19, the war between biology and economics has just expanded to the nationalist front, spilling over with the ferociousness of a zero-sum game. Madagascar President, Andry…
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…
A few weeks ago I had an interesting conversation with the Founder of Open Fees Educational Aid Foundation (Open Fees). She was sharing the organisation’s COVID-19 lockdown project. For the…
Let me start by giving due credit for this headline, which is not original to me. I lifted it from the 1983 song by reggae star, Peter Tosh, in the…
In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump, especially since the outbreak of the…
I read “How Buhari averted Nigeria’s road to Venezuela” by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Mohammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina. It was a good essay, free-flowing,…
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…