News analysis by Taiye Elebiyo-Edeni, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Nigerian transportation industry which comprises aviation, land (road and rail) and maritime subsectors has faced challenges of infrastructure deficit since independence and successive administrations have taken steps to address these Read more…
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However, I was still worried about the fact that I had no malaria but was very ill. My fears heightened when I lost my sense of smell and could not taste the delicious jollof rice my friend made for me. Read more…
I was with a group of businessmen friends of mine in a busy high street the other day, and witnessed several battery-powered, hand-held, rolling plastic ‘fan’ people were dangling across their faces and sweaty necks in a valiant but ultimately Read more…
– Older people discuss romance, sex lives after 60 Ageing is a tragedy, a bouquet of forlornness, deprivation, and muted rage for some older Nigerians. Even so, modern psychology and literature recommend romance and sex as anti-ageing elixir but not Read more…
Donald Trump has said he has “no responsibility” for the coronavirus pandemic, fobbing it off on governors and mayors whose repeated requests for federal help he’s denied. Yet he’s now sending federal troops into cities he says are controlled by the “radical left”, whose Read more…
In logic, “argumentum ad ignorantiam” describes a deficit in reasoning whereby an argument is based on sheer ignorance. It is the most hilarious slip to make in a debate. To now add this to the error of “precipio principii” (winding, Read more…
By Ado Adeboye FOR some time now, Nigeria has been plagued like many countries in the world by the novel coronavirus. The pandemic has infused morbid fear into many minds with increasing death toll, and ruinous economic recession caused by anti Read more…
The world will not be rid of COVID-19 until we have a safe and effective vaccine available to everyone. We will not recover from the far-reaching economic impact of the pandemic without a new social compact between governments and citizens Read more…
Philanthropy involves charitable giving to worthy causes. It is beyond a gift of cash, goods or services made to help accomplish goals of individuals and organizations. Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire Read more…
Not a little anger has been generated and duly expressed by Nigerians over the viral video of the demolition of portions of Nigeria’s diplomatic buildings that are still under construction in Accra, Ghana, by people who claimed that the land Read more…
Clem Aguiyi Sixty years after independence and 54 years after a brutal civil war, there are still Nigerians who have not reconciled themselves with the fact that the civil war is over, and that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction is Read more…
Dr Ugboaja JO I most warmly welcome all of us to this week’s edition of leadership series which deals with the various types of leadership. The last edition looked at theories of leadership including the classical theories, the path to Read more…