COVID-19 And A People Always In Search Of Villains
It was some years ago when my organisation was hiring new staff. Part of the recruitment process was a writing exercise to test the applicant’s ability to spot some basic…
It was some years ago when my organisation was hiring new staff. Part of the recruitment process was a writing exercise to test the applicant’s ability to spot some basic…
The government did not extend the lockdown by two weeks to punish us. But the unintended consequence of the extension for a poor country such as ours will be just…
Delete, delete, delete. That’s what I have found myself doing a lot of lately, since coronavirus started being linked to 5G technology. The preponderance of fake and often preposterous suggestions…
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…
In the nearly two weeks of lockdown so far in most Nigerian cities, we have seen great acts of charity by individuals, groups and institutions. Many have gone the extra…
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…
So much has been said about the coronavirus, either in terms of origin, impact, symptoms and prognosis. Hence, public awareness of its existence is indubitable, though in diverse descriptive forms.…
if I didn’t know any better, I would have asked COVID-19 to spare Nigeria as it makes its world tour. I would have begged it to look elsewhere, this one…
When I left Abuja at short notice nine days ago, the city was already emptying out. The single biggest factory and business centre there – the National Assembly – was…
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,…