The fourth wave of COVID-19 is over in Lagos State, and this is official.
Health Commissioner, Akin Abayomi said yesterday that consistent decrease in COVID-19 case positivity was an indication of the end of the fourth wave in the state.… Read the rest
Fellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times, globally! That statement is even an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging planet earth has brought hell closer home. What we are witnessing is nothing short of apocalypse. Armageddon is here, … Read the rest
Nigerians observing Covid-19 protocols
My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others, is the following passage from Chapter 3 of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s Things Falls Apart, a novel of monumental, evergreen relevance, translated into over 50 languages, a product of … Read the rest
President Donald Trump had to wear a face mask
What a year. WhatAyear. What. A. Year. Muddled and fragmented. Masked up and washed up. It was a tasteless year, the year we could barely smell the coffee, the year humanity was severely fatigued. It was the year that soaked … Read the rest
Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala
By Farooq Kperogi
In the aftermath of the infiltration, suppression, and suspension of the #EndSARS protests, Nigeria is now contending with the spontaneous nationwide eruption of what I call a subaltern revolt against the greed and hardheartedness of Nigeria’s … Read the rest
Chadwick Boseman
Dr. Stella Immanuel
Stella is not a Nigerian. She is from Cameroun. This was the first reaction I got on social media when the “ satanic” video of this irrepressible medical doctor, Stella Immanuel, went viral on social media attracting 80 million views … Read the rest
Muslims complying with social distancing in a Mosque
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human” – Charles Eisentein
When, hopefully, it is … Read the rest
Dan Foster
Dan Foster, the bubbly radio personality who dominated the airwaves in the 2000s is reportedly dead. Foster was an American who lived in Nigeria and gained popularity as the host of the ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ show during his time in … Read the rest
Come July, multiple experimental coronavirus vaccines will be subject to large-scale studies to find out whether they can really fend off the coronavirus, as the global vaccine race kicks up another notch. Moderna Inc, Chinese Sinovac Biotech and Oxford-AstraZeneca experimental … Read the rest
