Editorial
Implementing Patients’ Bill of Rights
History was unfolded on July 31, 2018, when Acting President Yemi Osinbajo launched the Patients’ Bill of Rights, setting the tone for improved service delivery in the country’s parlous health sector.
Hitherto, the nation’s health sector lacked a policy or legal instrument agg [...]
Summer holidays and vocational learning
The 2017/2018 academic session has come to an end in schools across Nigeria, consequently signaling the beginning of an extensive holiday that usually last between eight to ten weeks.
Many parents have however come to dr [...]
The humongous N242.4bn budget for 2019 elections
On July 17, 2018, President of the Senate Bukol Saraki read a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari on a supplementary budget with a whooping price tag of N242.45 for the execution of the 2019 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as well as security agencies. [...]
30,000 police for Ekiti guber polls
With 30,000 Police men made up of a Deputy Inspector General of Police, and Assistant Inspector-General of Police, 4 Commissioners of Police, 18 Assistant Commissioners of Police, 2 Police helicopters, 250 Police patrol vehicles as well as personnel from other security age [...]
Who will stop these killings?
Again, the specter of anarchy haunting Nigeria’s corporate existence resurfaced as the country grieves over the gruesome massacre of at least 86 persons in 11 Plateau villages.
The Plateau carnage [...]
2019 and youth thuggery
In countries where democracy has firmly taken root, it has become a political force used in redefining human existence in terms of the realization of socio economic development and building of egalitarian society.
Nigeria as a de [...]
APC act before the bell tolls
Things are not shaping up for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, since its ward, local government and state congresses. The combustion in the party was already steaming when there were suggestions in some quarters for tenure elongation for the National Working Committee, NWC.
It was onl [...]
Democracy Day: Deltans divided over Okowa’s performance
As Delta State joins other states across the nation to celebrate Democracy Day on May 29, 2018, some people of the state have said that the day is worth celebrating, while others disagree.
A member of the Delta State Elders Council/Peace Building Committee, Hon. Joe Ikhena, stated Governor Ifea [...]
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