The piece you are about to read was first published by me on 30th September 2015, almost eight years ago and  just four months into Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency. With little editing to whittle it down to fit into the space allotted. It is as relevant today as it was then. Enjoy it! “By President Muhammadu Buhari’s own admission, he is …

Access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene is essential for human health and well-being. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is about “clean water and sanitation for all”. However, in many developing countries, these necessities remain out of reach for a significant portion of the population, particularly those living in suburban and rural areas. The popular thinking is that local …

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has given Friday, 28th April as the deadline for complete Hajj fares remittance by boards, agencies and commissions of state Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare managers. The chairman of the Commission, Alhaji Zikrullah Kunle Hassan gave the ultimatum on Wednesday during a marathon meeting with the chief executives of state Pilgrims Welfare Board, agencies and …

The emergence of cultures within adaptable working models that facilitate improved flexibility and therefore well-being whilst generating new range of opportunities to innovate and increase productivity shows that hybrid work is here to stay. A report by Gartner shows a sizeable 51 per cent of United States knowledge workers are projected to work ‘hybrid’ and 20 per cent to work …

The Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board in the Federal Capital Territory has said that it would conduct medical screening for the 2023 Hajj intending pilgrims from 5th to 7th May. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the board, Malam Muhammad Aliyu on Tuesday in Abuja quoted the Director of the Board, Malam Abubakar Evuti as saying that the inoculation …

After reading Dreams from My Father, a book authored by Barack Obama, the 44th United States President, I concluded that Obama made up his mind to become the US President as early as when he was just eight years old. His was a trajectory evidently influenced by a conscious disposition of a man determined to fulfil his dreams. Nigeria’s President-elect, …

Last week, we highlighted certain cankerworms that have eaten very deep into the fabrics of the Nigerian society and which the in-coming Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration must address head-on and overcome if he is to succeed where the outgoing administration of retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari has failed woefully. We mentioned crude oil theft: According to the Nigerian Extractive Industries …

Parroted as the man who owns Gatwick and former adviser to the United States President Donald Trump, an iconic investor was in town. His visit was fortuitous but nonetheless memorable. He had come to bury his equally well-decorated father, Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, who passed on a little shy of his centennial birthday. Our August visitor …

Many Nigerians were intrigued by the prospect of witnessing the inauguration of the first female governor. They looked forward to Senator Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru Ahmed ascending the ‘throne’ of power in Yola, Adamawa State, in the northeastern region of Nigeria. Before the 18th March, 2023 state election, there were hushed hopes and wild permutations of the woman able to break …

It’s truly, very sad to recall that Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s second democratically elected president of the Fourth Republic, set aside History from the curriculum of second school education in 2009. The alibi was that students were avoiding the subject because there were few jobs for History graduates, and a concomitant dearth of instructors. He might have been correct about …