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Covid-19: Today’s Report

By Theophilus Abbah April 3, 2020 159 0

The charts below show the current state of Covid-19 in Nigeria. Death is still low, but there are concerns about its spread in the South-West, especially. There are fewer cases in the North. But this does not give a clear idea of the situation there, because fewer tests have been conducted in that part of […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 3 – Breakfast without bread in a blackout

By Theophilus Abbah April 3, 2020 165 0

By Theophilus Abbah Blanket blackout, darkness, sweats and fatigue ruled and ruined the night before Tuesday, March 31, when life would grind to a halt and the curse, we, Abuja residents, feared most would be unleashed to drench and drown us. Blackout, because electricity supply had become so unreliable that both government and the governed […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My Lockdown Diary] Day 2: It’s like the end of the world has come

By Theophilus Abbah April 1, 2020 227 0

By Theophilus Abbah Though I announced, on Day 1, that, for me, the lockdown for coronavirus started on Sunday, March 29, Nigeria’s strict social distancing, a preventive measure, officially took effect from Monday, March 30. It would be intensified on Tuesday, March 31 – for two weeks. I’m no clairvoyant, but I was still curious […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My lockdown diary] Day 1: A ghostly spectacle after unusual Sunday worship

By Theophilus Abbah March 31, 2020 175 0

By Theophilus Abbah President Muhammadu Buhari’s much-delayed and anxiously-awaited authoritative speech on Covid-19, delivered on Sunday, March 29, locked down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun from Monday, March 30. That’s for millions who wake up at sunrise and retire to bed at sunset in these cities. But as for me and the multitude to whom the […]Continue Reading

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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By Theophilus Abbah March 30, 2020 210 0

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 in Nigeria: Cislac Demands Total Accountability of Donated Funds (Press Release)

By Theophilus Abbah March 30, 2020 223 0

While the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/ Transparency International in Nigeria commends and appreciates the ongoing donations by indigenous groups towards the combating the COVID-2019 virus pandemic and its socio-economic impacts, we at the same time, call for total accountability of the utilisation and distribution of funds. As we welcome the recent Continue Reading

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10 Main Points in Buhari’s Covid-19 Speech

By Theophilus Abbah March 30, 2020 187 0

Whole instrument of government mobilized to tackle pandemic Covid-19 has no cure to date Three preventive measures are (i) regular hygiene (ii) sanitary practice (iii) social distancing N15 billion set aside as response Citizens in Lagos, FCT and Ogun should stay at home Air travels suspended Relief materials for satellite towns in Lagos and Abuja […]Continue Reading

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Much ado about National Security Adviser

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 12, 2020 157 0

By Eric Teniola General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the 7th Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as […]Continue Reading

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‘How Nigeria can cope with plummeting crude oil prices’

By Theophilus Abbah March 10, 2020 216 0

Eliminate oil theft and leakages in the system Optimize supply chain Introduce alternative energies Maintenance of distribution infrastructure Passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill Remove fuel subsidy Bring in multiple players to participate in importation Oil marketers, under the umbrella of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), has said that the global Continue Reading

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Emir Sanusi dethronement breaks twitter

By Theophilus Abbah March 9, 2020 164 0

The dethronement of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II has set tongues wagging. Here are what Nigerians have said about it on twitter: The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II (KCOB) has finally been removed. This was coming. He has lost traditional power but his influence will always be telling on politics in Nigeria as a whole. […]Continue Reading

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Immunity for lawmakers will leave Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda in tatters

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 2, 2020 141 0

By Kolawole Olaniyan When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was named by the African Union as its first “anti-corruption champion in Africa” in 2018, he called on member states to “invest in institutions to entrench transparency and accountability.” But the recent push by many lawmakers from his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to grant themselves immunity […]Continue Reading

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[Lesson from Abroad] Is Nigeria on path to Somalia?

By Theophilus Abbah February 25, 2020 160 0

Somalia: There Is No Government Here, By Muno Gedi (A transnational investigation by the African Investigative Publishing Collective (AIPC)) “I wake up every day ready to fight to survive” The Shebelle river flows into Somalia from Ethiopia, through the regional capital Beledweyne further into the Hiran region, down to Buluboorde and beyond. Many farmers tend […]Continue Reading