Miscellaneous

The Nigerian government, in 2008, spent about 500 billion naira on security in the Niger Delta region. So far, in 2009, about the same amount has been spent – excluding …

The Nigerian health system, no thanks to the unfair advantage given to physicians by various governments and express access to press that doctors have more than other health professionals, majorly …

It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a …

I believe that the influence and discipline in the advanced democracy we live in, coupled with education, enlightenment and interactions with far sighted positive thinkers, should be enough to help …

Some diplomatic observers informed me that when the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, visited Washington, sometime ago, he was not received by the US Secretary of State, but by …

As educated, street-smart and well-travelled as Nigerians are, they seem to have a high tolerance for stupidity, cowardice and mediocrity. Otherwise, how could men like Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida and Shagari …

This week, I had a taste our gender neglect bitter medicine, and this pushed my hand to publicly gripe about this gender disparity issue against women in the provision of …

Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem …

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people’s faces and live and be proud …

It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether …

Lekan Fatodu affirmed on the publisher’s page that Check Out magazine will liberate travellers from the old ways and chart a new path that will offer ‘more than what you …

I once heard in the mouth of a trusted friend that “expectation is the mother of all disappointments” and the lesson sank in well for I had reneged on an …

The current food crisis can be defined as a combination of decline in stocks of primary or staple food produce and escalating prices of food products…

Most Ghanaians are not expected to live longer than 50. This is what the United Nations, UN, life expectancy Index, 2007 says…

One of the continuing challenges posed by unprecedented urbanization in developing countries, including Nigeria, is the provision of adequate and affordable housing…

One evening I was chatting with Asata outside the student union.  He had, he said, some “bomb weed.”  I had tried weed before and it did nothing for me.  But …