Friday Column

Friday Column

COVID-19 infection rate: The numbers game

the story of Covid-19 has always been about the numbers – the fear that tens of millions of people might be killed by the pandemic, turning the

Mr. President: What would the Buhari legacy be?

Today is the anniversary of President Buhari’s fifth year in power and has three more years to go before retiring to Daura to take care of his cows. I

Covid-19 narratives multiply as Nigeria moves towards herd immunity

Herd immunity is an epidemiological concept that describes the state where a population, in this case, a community is sufficiently immuned to a diseas

Kano against Covid-19

Northern Nigerian states such as Jigawa, Sokoto, Borno and Yobe have joined the list of states with rapidly growing cases of COVID-19. The rapid growt

COVID-19: The wicked state, Kano and the age of citizen action

The most important universal shock that has flowed from the COVID-19 pandemic is that most governments in the world were unable and often unwilling  t