Fragments
Friday Column by Safiya I. Dantiye
Child missing
Parents especially mothers have to be on alert on the whereabouts of their small children; those that have started walking...
Fuel subsidy removal: What is the experts’ solution?
Over the years Nigerians have been inundated by experts’ opinions on the inevitability and advantage of fuel subsidy removal. The...
Worries over Niger
There is palpable tension that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would invade Niger Republic to restore President...
‘African casual’: Doctor’s death in hospital elevator
The sad death of a young doctor undergoing housemanship, Dr Vwaere Diaso on Tuesday at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos...
‘Women wahala!’
Women trended this week and not for a good reason, rather as a butt of a joke and the ‘problem’...
Youths’ lack of hope in Nigeria
Just recently I was in the midst of some young women doctors who were lamenting how they couldn’t get work...
Looters on rampage
Just before the inauguration of the new administration on May /29/2023 there was a frenzy of stealing government items in...
Sodomy and the society
Two days ago I watched transfixed by horror as one woman narrated the story of how one man sexually abused...
Men doing domestic work
This is a touchy subject in African context where men are not expected to lift a finger at home. They...
‘Women’ trafficking
A young Nigerian woman cried for help as she was unknowingly sold to a prostitution racket in Ghana. She went...