September 13, 2021 Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, and Prof. Maurice Iwu, Nigerian Professor of Pharmacognosy, have advocated for a deeper study, research and commercialization of Traditional Medicine in the nation’s health sector. A recent ranking placed Ghana ahead of Nigeria on the African continent as the top two countries with greater ...

September 12, 2021 “When we first introduced electronic medical records (EMR) in the hospital, there was serious resentment by the staff, to the extent there were even attempts to burn down the system.” That was the Clinical Director of Garki Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria, Dr. Kenneth Ityoh, recalling the initial challenges that the Management faced when ...

September 5, 2021 The nation sunk deeper into the abyss of despondency under Buhari. He has scored an all-season high in nepotism; an all-time low in economic management. And he, by himself, herded the nation to the crudest level on insecurity Were Nigeria a man, he would be one hell of an irresponsible man, a ...

August 12, 2021 Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry apologized Thursday for the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat and announced it had launched a formal investigation of the incident. Nigeria earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Indonesia and summoned Indonesia’s ambassador in Abuja for talks after a leaked video of Saturday’s incident went viral on social media ...

August 3, 2021 The United Arab Emirates will lift a ban on transit passenger traffic from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries from Aug. 5, the National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority (NCEMA) said on Tuesday. The UAE, a major international travel hub, has banned passengers from many South Asian and African countries for several ...

The Federal Government says it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the US which is being purportedly  blocked by some lawmakers in that country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the purported ammunition deal reported in some sections of the media as ” fake news.” Speaking with ...

July 14, 2021 Specifically, family members of one of the men stressed to the Times of Israel that the allegations were entirely unfounded, and that separatist social media accounts took advantage of the Israelis’ trip to claim that the three were supporting Biafran separatist groups The arrest of three Israelis shooting a documentary in south ...

June 21, 2021 A recent survey by a renowned medical journal, The Lancet, predicts that Nigeria may soon become a global power, owing to its favourable population indices. This is based on the premise that Nigeria will become the world’s ninth-largest economy with a life expectancy higher than 80 years by 2100 A popular philanthropist ...

April 18, 2021 On Monday, April 12, news broke that Twitter has announced it will be opening its first office in Africa. That’s good news. The bad side of the news for Nigerians is that the new Twitter office will be based in Ghana, not in Nigeria. There was grumble and mumble from Nigerians. Why ...

Two senior African journalists Olumide Iyanda from Nigeria and Francis Kokutse from Ghana have shared their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine in their respective countries. They both spoke on Saturday on Platforms Africa e-Discourse, an e-community of intellectuals, opinion leaders and policy moulders across the African continent. Ghana and Nigeria are administering the  AstraZeneca ...