Nigeria, Oct. 10 -- In July 2007, I attended the second session of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Thailand. It was my first real encounter with Bangkok... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 9 -- Opobo Kingdom in Rivers State now has a new King. He is King Charles Douglas MacPepple Jaja, Jeki VI. The king was crowned as the sixth Amanyanabo of Opobo and the coronation which ... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 9 -- I was on LinkedIn the other day when I came across this screaming headline: "Everyone has a plan for Africa, except Africa." At first, I was so engrossed by the headline that I thou... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- Politics is rarely only about elections; it is also about succession, control, alliances, interests and the management of political expectations. In Kwara State, these forces have c... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- Sometimes, the person who looks strongest in the room is the one who is silently falling apart. Let me start with a story of a man I will call Ogede. Not his real name. He was a har... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- Even though I am not a politician, I am a very keen political observer and analyst. I love my country of origin to a fault. Hence despite my 40 years sojourn in Europe I am deeply f... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 7 -- September brought significant developments across Nigeria's health sector, from new maternal health interventions and healthcare financing to local production of essential health pr... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 7 -- Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), has returned to the centre of Nigeria's economic debate... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 6 -- When this newspaper reported last Saturday that the Pro-chancellor of Michael and Cecilia Ibru University has called himself a professor for years without ever being awarded the ran... Read More
Nigeria, Oct. 6 -- In 1851, Hermann von Helmholtz devised the ophthalmoscope, allowing doctors to look at the back of a living eye and see its tiny blood vessels. Today, someone who comes to an eye cl... Read More