Kaduna community stands up to bandits, forges its own peace
Solomon Magaji can still see what’s left of his home from the opposite bank of the Kaduna River, but he…
‘Look at my life, is this how a celebrity’s home should look like?’
Eyin eyan yi, ti nba ti wa ku nko? (You these people, what if I had died?).” That was how…
Lagos doctors, teachers, transporters, others speak on horrors of 2020
Regarded as the most turbulent year of the modern era, the just-concluded year means different things to different people. Lagos…
‘Due to COVID-19 fears, I was neglected in labour room; then I began to defecate through my vagina’
When Mrs Ukachuku Amaka, a 31-year-old mother of two, fell into labour in July, she decided to patronise a hospital…
How we handled 200 cases of gender based violence in two years —Oyo SGBVRT
As the Oyo State Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Response team (Oyo SGBVRT) reviews its activities to start a new year,…
2020: The year that was not normal
In less than 24 hours, the curtain will be drawn on the year 2020 to herald the beginning of 2021.…
Regional security outfits: Any hope at ending insecurity?
‘SUYI AYODELE examines the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network, WNSN, codenamed Operation Amotekun and the subsequent clamour for…
Nigeria: Restructuring a contraption
ONGOING efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution fall short of the collective demands by a preponderance of stakeholders in the…
North and year of anomie
Head, northern operations, SANYA ADEJOKUN here looks at the seemingly intractable orgy of killings in Nigeria’s North. President Muhammadu Buhari…
FG/ASUU faceoff: When education loses priority
THE year 2020 will go down in history as recording one of the longest of all strike actions embarked upon…
…and EndSARS births the ‘soro’ soke’ generation
LANRE ADEWOLE recalls a national tragedy sparked by a revolutionary candour. Ndubuisi Udo, popularly known as “Dele” Udo, was a…
COVID-19: A pandemic like no other
Unlike previous years, 2020 will go down in history as the year of the ruinous reign of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
From lockdown to palliatives, EndSARS, recession
KOLA MUHAMMED reviews the major events in 2020 which started just like every other but turned out to be a…
The crisis of National ID
Since the Federal Government made the pronouncement on the National Identification Number (NIN), many Nigerians have become distraught as they…
Do the indigent know it’s Christmas?
EBENEZER ADUROKIYA, HENDRIX OLIOMOGBE and INIOBONG EKPONTA peep into the existential lives of beggars across the Niger Delta at Christmas…
TVCs: On Glo’s persistence about the spirit of a true Nigerian
ROTIMI IGE, in this feature, x-rays telecoms company, Globacom’s television commercials (TVCs) and how they have, over the years, impacted…
Is Fayemi walking the talk in Ekiti?
KUNLE ODEREMI examines steady efforts at opening up Ekiti State for transformation by the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi in…
Celebrating a COVID-19 Christmas
KOLA MUHAMMED and KEHINDE JAYEOBA report that the combined problems of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession are not putting…
‘We face death daily to earn peanuts’
DAYO AYEYEMI reports the peculiar world of street sweepers and the deadly assignment they daily carry out in return for…
Afe Babalola Multi-system Hospital restores teenager’s sight
Afe Babalola Multi-System Hospital, Ado-Ekiti (AMSH) has made this year’s Christmas merry for the family of the Sodeindes by restoring…
