As a one-time Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, (CODESRIA), the Malawi born Professor Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 27th... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari does not appear to understand and appreciate the futility and ineffectiveness of lockdowns as a panacea for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in an economic and... Read more
The propriety or otherwise of exposing the identity of COVID-19 infected or potentially infected persons which has become a big controversy in Benue State three weeks ago in the case of Mrs... Read more
The now dead New Nigerian used to run a series of explosive interviews under what it called ‘The New Nigerian Parley’ or ‘NN Parley’ for short. In one of the series w... Read more
Bauchi State in the Northeast of Nigeria has a worse record than Kano State in the Northwest in terms of citizens’ compliance with the restrictions on movement in the wake of COVID-19, anoth... Read more
COVID-19 has a health care dimension of keeping the virus at bay but it also has a geopolitical dimension involving who is framed as the good guy or the bad guy and what such language game c... Read more
The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP), the only political party with roots in radical ideological politics in Nigeria, has distanced itself from the strategy of lockdown in Nigeria in terms o... Read more
Are African countries copying blindly the theory and practice of lockdown or not? Is lockdown a case of generals always fighting the last war, (using Ebola tactics to fight Coronavirus?) ins... Read more
A voice from the trenches of the war against COVID-19 in Nigeria has joined the difficult task of convincing Nigerians against indulging in public gatherings. The coalition of over 100 non-g... Read more
Across much of Africa, children IN general and girls in particular have no voice. But in this refurbished piece, a Girl Child advocate from Crestville Development Foundation, (www.ireneugbah... Read more
