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How Age Reduction is Crippling The Nigerian Civil Service

The civil service in Nigeria is the highest employer of labour of the public sector. Men and women employed in this sector are required by the Nigerian Civil Service Act to retire either upon the attainment of 60 years...

June 22, 2018

POETRY

Kit and kin

We were once kit and kin Seen everywhere, laughing all the time We were once kit and kin We were once kit and kin Strolling all the night, talking all the time We were once kit and kin ...

June 16, 2018

AFRICA NIGERIA

How To Identify Commonly Abused Drugs

As a sequel to my earlier article Read here on Nigeria’s rising drug and substance abuse, I received lots of emails and WhatsApp messages asking me to detail how substances commonly abused can be detected. Majority of these emails came...

May 6, 2018

POETRY

Our love

Our love is like the harmattan It comes and goes with seasons Our love is like the harmattan It blows and blows then dies Our love is like the harmattan Raging for a season and gone the next...

May 3, 2018

Child obesity; love for your kids or indulgence?

AFRICA

Child obesity; love for your kids or indulgence?

It was my day off from work and I decided to visit the mall with Zainab. I sat quietly waiting for my friend for our 5 pm appointment. Being a stickler for time, I had arrived some 45 minutes...

May 2, 2018

NIGERIA

On Fulani Herdsmen and The Presidency

Written by Ruth Soronnadi Yesterday, we woke up to the news of the latest herdsmen killing in Benue state, this time involving several catholic parishioners and two priests, one of whom had previously raised a public outcry on the insecurity...

April 26, 2018

POETRY

Tough love

I sat by the curb My head buried in tears and apparent shame? I had watched as your car pulled away from the driveway Tears rolled as the dust you left behind settled I shivered albeit the sun knowing this...

April 25, 2018

NIGERIA

Combating Nigeria’s rising drug problem

Nigeria has a rising drug problem and we can no longer afford to sit still and do nothing about it. In recent times, we’ve experienced astronomical increase of opioid use among Nigerian youths. Three experiences have brought this reality closer...

April 21, 2018