Opinion

This year’s World Heart Day (29 September) theme focusses on a life-course approach to the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) with a focus on women and children. "It is a myth that heart disease and stroke only...

Should I say it was by happenstance or luck or a mixture of both fortune and happenstance that the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission invited me as a lead resource person from the civil society community to participate...

Manchester United have lost three of their six opening games this premier league season and have only amassed only seven points to record the lowest haul by any United team since the early days of Ferguson when his 89/90...

How convenient it is for people to denounce an unattractive pass. It is so convenient that even those who have hands in making a situation hard-featured, can go ahead in condemning the parlous outcome of their indiscretion. An ugly...

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first global public health and corporate accountability treaty and to date 177 countries are Parties to it. By signing and ratifying this treaty, these countries are committed to...

There can be little doubt that the relocation of the 19 igbo destitutes from Lagos state a few months ago was a lawful exercise and that it was done in the interest of Lagos state. Consequently I do not...

Since the seven rebel PDP governors embarked on their futile rebellion against President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP, they have at every given opportunity made pretence to the fact that they are fighting to enthrone “justice...

Ever since the unfortunate incident of penultimate Thursday, I have been inundated with calls from my constituents, colleagues, friends and associates both the political and apolitical, from within and outside of Ekiti and indeed Nigeria. This seems to confirm...

Ekene is an enclave bloke. He has spent a good measure of his life in Ekwulu; a village in Anambra state. Although he has had education up to the secondary level, he takes an aversion to it. The provenance...

The London-based independent think tank, Chatham House, has just released a damning report on the thriving oil theft in the oil rich Niger Delta region. The report, which is more or less the vindication of similar meticulous investigation done...