Finding a Vaccine Is Only the First Step No One Will Be Safe Until the Whole World Is Safe By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

It is now abundantly clear that the world cannot fully emerge from its current state of novel coronavirus lockdown until a vaccine is found. Never before have so many lives, livelihoods, and economies depended so much on a single health intervention. But as scientists race to develop potential vaccine candidates, the international community must remember …

COVID-19: Palliative without database by Nigeria Guardian Newspapers Editorial

Concerns expressed the other day by various stakeholders on the seeming failure of the government’s social investment programme are already in the public domain. This newspaper, in fact, commented on the failure the other day. Interestingly, these allegations of failure of the programme are coming from key players within the ruling party. The concerns from the …

Oil price crash: Moment of truth Published By Nigeria PUNCH Newspapers Editorial Board

CRUDE prices are hugging rock bottom as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, threatening oil-dependent economies. Output and prices are not expected to return to pre-virus levels for years, crude oil market watchers say. For Nigeria especially, disaster and the proverbial lean years are a stark possibility for which the country and its leadership appear …

Trump’s WHO funding freeze

ACCUSTOMED to crude display of power, President Donald Trump has frozen the United States’ funding of the World Health Organisation amid the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the entire world. His grouse with the agency is that it easily accepted China’s narrative of the health crisis; and by so doing, mismanaged its information, which invariably endangered the …

China’s racial assault on Nigerians by Nigeria Punch Newspapers Editorial Board

NIGERIANS and other Africans living in China have been subjected to brutal racial assaults by the authorities of their host country, following the recent uptick in the COVID-19 pandemic. They were accused of being the purveyors of the virus even when some of them had no recent travel history. Among the victims are businessmen, travellers …