How COVID-19 is unraveling Nigeria’s deepest problems
Over the past few weeks, governors in some northern Nigerian states have been pawning destitute children across state-lines upon fears that they will spread COVID-19 as years of promoting…
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Nigeria’s lockdown easing must protect lives and livelihood
The persistent surge in the number of COVID-19 patients in Nigeria should prompt a proactive response to redesigning lockdown easing strategies aimed at protecting lives and livelihoods.…
Nigerian scientists’ COVID-19 advances promising for Africa
Nigeria, often derided as the big for nothing giant of Africa has made two major scientific breakthroughs since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Though both feats are firsts in Africa,…
A crisis not to be wasted
The confluence of COVID-19 and an oil market collapse means that our oil boom is well and truly over. We have no public sector savings, approximately $85 billion (20 percent of GDP) that we…
Support Nigeria’s informal sector to spur development
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought negative economic consequences in the form of job losses, threatened the sustainability of firms and depressed growth in GDP. Nigeria has the challenge of a…
Nigerians abroad: Surplus in a time of shortages
It's estimated that more than 4,000 Nigerian doctors practice in the US; over 5,000 in the UK and 568 in Canada (a 200 percent increase in 10 years). Poor pay and lack of opportunities are…
Prioritise Nigeria’s healthcare in COVID-19 fight
Recent efforts in Nigeria show a slow but steady shift towards fixing or lessening the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activities. With COVID-19 cases not showing signs of…
Nigeria’s 2020 budget needs a rethink
In a refusal to cut her coat according to her cloth, Nigeria still intends to spend more than it will earn in 2020. And it will fund a part of it, half of its revised 2020 budget, through…
COVID-19 not a cover for rule of man in states
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic has handed extra powers to governors and various authority figures at all levels. While citizens appreciate the necessity for these war powers to engage…
Stop the scam of ‘school feeding’ for at-home pupils
Many contradictions assail the planned resumption on 14 May of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme in Abuja, FCT. The obvious one is the fact that pupils are out-of-school based on the…