Question Now is Unlocking Nigeria Because, Long Before COVID-19, Nigeria Has Been On Lockdown Anyway
Dr Murtala Muhammad, activist academic with the Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, argues that, long before COVID-19, Nigeria had been on a prolonged lockdown, offering his ow... Read more
Historian and Vice Chancellor at United States International University – Africa, Prof Paul Tiyambe Zeleza explains why colleagues, friends and Africanists continue to pour out their hearts... Read more
Only two communities have so far benefitted from the Federal Government of Nigeria’s palliatives regime, investigation has shown. A survey by two NGOs – the Centre for Information Tech... Read more
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
