Two South-south states are among the three states with the highest HIV prevalence rate in Nigeria. Akwa Ibom tops the prevalence rate chart with about 5.5 per cent of its residents living with the virus. It is followed by Benue…
Budget 2019: The Hidden Monsters
Introduction As far as budgets go the Federal Government’s Budget 2019 is modest, mild and uninspiring; it has a number of broad flaws: It fails to excite vision, it fails to ignite passion and it simply tries to steady…
Nigeria’s Brutal Decision: Former Dictator or Alleged Kleptocrat
Voters need to choose between a pair of uninspiring presidential candidates, neither offering a fix for its struggling economy. What’s a Nigerian citizen to do when there’s a presidential election coming up and the two leading candidates are a former…
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE IF CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS
overning is all about priorities. (Hah! You thought I was going to say it’s about “compromise,” but I am not John Kasich so you’re all out of luck.) Currently, the Department of Justice’s most obvious priorities are a) making sure…
WHAT EVERYONE GETS WRONG ABOUT THE SINGLE MOMS STATISTICS
Corrections and clarifications: Information provided by Kids Count initially misstated the percentage of children in Michigan living in poverty with a single mother; the correct figure is 50.9 percent. Want to explain why and how America is going off the…
THE REAL SCANDAL ISN’T COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA, IT IS EVERYTHING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
“Where is the collusion?” “You know, they’re still looking for collusion!” “Where is the collusion?” “Find some collusion.” “We want to find the collusion.” These were the words of the 45th president of the United States of America on the night of Aug. 21 as…
WHAT GOVERNORS EARN WILL SHOCK NIGERIANS – PETER OBI
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State has stated that what governors earn in Nigeria will cause more outrage in the country than revelation of Senators’ salaries. The former governor speaking as a panelist at the dialogue organised by…
‘THERE SHOULD BE NO ELECTION IN NIGERIA IN 2019’
Chief Adetola Adeniyi, a veteran journalist and columnist in several national newspapers both home and abroad is the longest running columnist in Nigeria who has been writing since 1958. In this interview with Adelowo Adebumiti, he spoke about his forthcoming…
By resigning from APC, Atiku has found salvation
Yes, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC). I considered his action a deus ex machina. The caterwauling and refrain that Atiku is a political philanderer are hollow when put in the context of an…
How America has silently accepted the rage of white men
In the wake of one of the worst massacres in modern American history, our government’s highest leaders will be silent about why things like this keep happening. “Warmest condolences” will be tweeted to families of those who lost their lives, minutes of…