WHO Creates New Team to Investigate Pandemic

The World Health Organization unveiled Wednesday a team of scientists it wants to investigate new pathogens and preventing future pandemics — plus reviving the stalled probe into Covid-19’s origins. The group of 26 experts will be charged with producing a new global framework for studies into the origins of emerging pathogens of epidemic and pandemic potential — and their remit includes SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease. Besides the Covid-19 crisis, a growing number...

Swazi Students Resist Monarchy to Continue the Fight for Democracy

By Michelle Gavin, Guest columnist and blogger The world should not look away from Swazis’ continuing fight for democracy. For a brief moment over the summer, eSwatini was the subject of international headlines when security forces killed pro-democracy demonstrators in one of the world’s last absolute monarchies. The Southern African Development Community dispatched a high-level fact-finding mission to the country, which foundered when Swazi officials resisted regional efforts to consult with voices outside of government and did not...

Anambra Assembly Passes Anti-Grazing Bill into Law, As Governor Obiano is Set to Present 2022 Budget

AWKA — Anambra State House of Assembly has passed the anti-grazing bill into law after the bill was read for the third time and overwhelmingly supported by members during the plenary session today. A bill for a law to prohibit and abolish open and nomadic grazing was submitted to the House a few weeks ago and has been painstakingly considered by the House before it was passed at about 3.55 pm, Nigerian time on Tuesday,...

OPINION: How Anambra Governorship Electoral Victory is Determined by Elites

In all, these elites have enormous sums of money which they are willing to deploy on Election Day to ensure that their preferred candidate wins in their locality. Anambra elections have always been elections in which stakeholders’ influence practically decide who wins. Anambra elites explicitly and subtly influence the choice of voters and their loyalty is not tied to any political party. Admittedly, their influence is not all required to win an election because in...

Is It A Waste of Time to Explain Oneself?: Helen Paul’s Black Eye Attributed to Domestic Violence

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (either in the ascending or descending order), the third tier of the pyramid model is Belongingness and Love Needs/Desires. Recently, a popular entertainer, Helen Paul, made an Instagram post narrating her ordeal which led to her usage of sunglasses even while taking pictures. She mentioned that some people who were oblivious of the true situation assumed she was being proud. @itshelenpaul: “Sometime ago, I was involved in a car accident in Abuja. I suffered a concussion...

Tiwa Savage Leaked Sex Video: Dealing with Blackmailers

To blame a victim of sextortion instead of dealing with the sextortionist is a clear sign of misplacement of priority. Sextortion is the practice of extorting money or sexual favours from someone by threatening to reveal evidence of their sexual activity. It can also be called blackmail. Perpetrators of this act are called sextortionist. We have witnessed blackmailers leak the videos of victims upon their refusal to comply with their (the blackmailer’s) exploitative demands. To...

Nobel Peace Prize for Journalists Serves As Reminder that Freedom of the Press is Under Threat From Strongmen and Social Media

By Dr. Kathy Kiely Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.” But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how far we have come from that moment of irrational exuberance than the powerful warning the Nobel Prize Committee felt compelled to issue on Oct....

Nigerian Scholars Discuss the State of Education as the World Celebrates Teachers

Oct. 5 is recognized internationally as World Teachers’ Day to observe the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers, around the world. This event was first celebrated in 1994. To further mark this event in the editorial context, our correspondent, Favour Ebube talked to two Nigerian-based scholars, Professor Simeon Dosunmu, a Professor of Sociology of Education, Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, and Dr....

OPINION: What is Actually Wrong with Nigeria and Nigerians: Organised Madness?

By Dr. Okey (Oduma) Chidolue, Columnist We endlessly complain about our government (Local, State & Federal) but we cannot individually or collectively carry out a very simple task like driving through an intersection. “What exactly is wrong with us?” This is the question I have continued to ask. We endlessly complain about our government (Local, State & Federal) but we cannot individually or collectively carry out a very simple task like driving through an intersection....

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. “For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,” announced the Swedish Academy this morning. The award comes with more than $1 million in prize money. Gurnah was born in 1948. He’s was previously a professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England...

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