By Olukemi-Odele NIGERIA IS grappling with a rising tide of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension. These illnesses are often closely tied to unhealthy diets, particularly the excessive consumption of processed and packaged foods high in sugar, sodium (salt), and saturated fats. The widesp...
By Adejola Adeyemi Crown The pressure to break news instantly has reshaped the media landscape in ways that raise serious questions about the future of responsible journalism. What used to be a careful craft guided by truth, context and balance has now become a frantic chase for being the first to publish. This shift has […]
By Tunde Rahman GIVEN HOW sensitive the subject has become, it is understandable that the matter of state police has taken this long. Importantly, it has also become imperative that some drastic measures have to be taken to end the current security situation. Last week, President Bola Tinubu finally took the critical step towards tackling [&he...
THE BRITISH Raj ruled India for slightly above 300 years and they used the famous indirect rule system with the traditional rulers – Maharajahs playing a significant role in the administration. When independence came on August 15th 1947 the new government led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru decided to scrap the traditional rulers as they were [&hel...
By Olukorede Yishau SHE WAS only fifteen. Her best friend was Moniba, and she had imagined many more years of easy companionship with this special being she could talk to from morning till night without ever feeling bored. But this friendship, and indeed their future, came under a grave threat. The Taliban had invaded their […]
By Bola BOLAWOLEÂ OUR CROSSING of paths left an indelible mark when Banji Adekunle and his bosom friend, Taiye Oladapo, were both undergraduates at the University of Ibadan (UI) and I was serving my one-year mandatory NYSC national service at the same university after graduating from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-...
By Kunle Oyatomi NIGERIA IS with sad and disturbing tales. No thanks to eight years of lackadaisical approach to insecurity under the Buhari administration. For eight years, Nigeria’s security architecture, which had weakened under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, completely collapsed under the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Across the...
By Owei Lakemfa THE WORLD was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms in contemporary times. Hurricane Katrina which made a landfall in New Orleans, United States, claimed 1,392 lives and displaced a million people. But if humans had no chance against such natural disasters, […]
By Babafemi Ojudu THERE WAS a time when this country walked tall, not because it was without problems, but because it possessed the will, the confidence, and the inner organs that responded to danger. Today, Nigeria staggers. Not in dramatic collapse, but in a slow, humiliating wobble, like a wounded giant searching desperately for a […...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEÂ It was a surprise to me that Peter Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state, invited former President Olusegun Obasanjo to his birthday bash! Trust me, Fayose must have been up to something, but as it turned out, Obasanjo, the wily fox himself, upended him! A miserable Fayose was then left with […]
