Editorial
COVID-19: Beyond travel ban, closure of schools, airports
Nigeria's response to the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have woken up following the exponential spike in the numbers, forcing authorities to impose a travel ban on at least 13 countries, mostly epicenters of the ravaging disease.
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COVID-19: Beyond travel ban, closure of schools, airports
Last week, cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria spiked exponentially, forcing authorities to impose a travel ban on at least 13 countries, mostly epicen [...]
Implication of Nigeria’s epileptic power supply
In 2013, the Nigerian government ceded most part of the its power sector to private hands, with the hope of improving power generation and distribution, and to in the long run, end the myriad of problems bedevilling the sector.
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Failure of states to access UBEC fund
For six years, Kwara State in North Central Nigeria, failed to access N7 billion periodic allocation received from the nation’s consolidated revenue through the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, for the purpose of developing primary and junior secondary schools.
With an estimate [...]
Coronavirus: Nigeria’s preparedness
At least 565 people have been said to have lost their lives to the deadly Coronavirus since the virus resurfaced in December 2019, with the number of confirmed cases rising to 28,000 globally and several suspected cases being recorded daily.
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Worsening insecurity: Time to fire service chiefs
For once, since Nigeria’s descent into domestic terrorist attacks, the mist over the actual state of its national security disappeared last week, when the Senate openly affirmed the country’s deteriorating security situation.
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Public utility and vandalism in FCT
In what now appears a singsong of sorts, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, lamented the rate of wanton destruction of public utilities in the nation’s capital territory. At every opportunity since he became minister, he has not failed to raise [...]
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