COVID-19: Will South Korea’s model help save Nigeria’s hospital bed shortage?
With the apparent spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, as well as in many other parts of the world,…
COVID-19: Afe Babalola offers 15-point prescriptions for resumption of schools
The Founder and Chancellor of the flourishing Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has offered prescriptions on…
I would rather die from coronavirus than live in misery, says African desperate to be in Europe
Many Africans are managing to evade coronavirus lockdown barriers in Niger, the Sahel's migrant crossroads, as they press on with…
Coronavirus or not, African migrants desperately push on in the desert towards Europe
Many Africans are managing to evade coronavirus lockdown barriers in Niger, the Sahel's migrant crossroads, as they press on with…
Wicked blow: How hoodlums killed photographer 3 months to wedding
A photographer, Peter Greg Edogbeji, was preparing for his wedding even as the coronavirus pandemic raged. Unfortunately in the course of…
How not to fast: Doctors, clerics, traditionalists speak on dangers of marathon fast
TADE MAKINDE, IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI and ADEOLA OTEMADE explore the phenomenon and spirituality of fasting, revealing that though people embark on…
Travel ban: ‘Infiltrators will be sent back home, won’t be allowed to escape’
BOLA BADMUS, TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE, OLALEKAN OLABULO, and KEHINDE AKINSEHINDE-JAYEOBA, dug into the controversial influx of Northern youth into Lagos, and…
The pains, struggles of Almajiri system
Federal Government is partnering state governments in northern Nigeria, to end a three-in-one scourge of almajiri syndrome, street begging and…
Day foundation empowered orphanage homes in Ibadan
As part of efforts to touch the lives of vulnerable people in the society and ensure that caregivers of…
How organisation showed love to people living with disabilities
In fulfilment of its promise to always look out for people living with disabilities in Ona Ara Local Government Area…
COVID-19: How understaffing, shortage of PPEs, weak insurance scheme expose health workers to fatal hazards
As the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues across Nigeria, health workers involved in fighting the pandemic have continued to…
International scholars hold webinar conference on COVID-19
The African Studies Association India (ASA India), in partnership with the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New…
Face masks have gone creative
WALE AKINSELURE and IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI report that efforts are ongoing by the Oyo State government to engage local tailors to…
Our COVID-19 travails: How Nigerians are coping with hunger, cash crunch
MARUF OLAKUNLE and KOLA OYELERE write that many hitherto comfortable Nigerians are currently going through hardship, while most others are…
NBC’s digitisation drive, fake news and fight against coronavirus
THE dreaded COVID-19 pandemic has become a global tragedy. At the moment various news platforms are reporting the same…
‘After this lockdown, I ‘ll go back to Ivory Coast, life is better there’
The lockdown has been a phase we all have to partake in as the world continues to battle with COVID-19.…
Our fears living close to isolation centres —Residents
SYLVESTER OKORUWA and SEGUN KASALI probed into happenings at isolation centres’ neighbourhoods and testing centres, bringing an eyewitness account. Lagos,…
How illegal arrests lead to prison congestion
As the nation grapples with the issue of prison congestion, a research report by the Centre for Justice, Mercy and…
Day residents’ association pitched Lagos community against EKEDC
Located along the Ebute Metta axis of Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State, Otumara is a shanty community…
Justice under lock: Hunger romances lawyers
Since the lockdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic in some parts of the country came into effect, administration of justice…
