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By Otobrise Omokaro Lately, tobacco corporations have been getting special mention in the news just like they have always wanted. They crave the publicity. From donations to governments, to unverified claims of new vaccines and proposals for partnerships etc. One thing is certain: The same companies whose products kill an estimated 8 million people annually…
April 18, 2020
A well-worn cliché states that those who “Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail.” That has been Nigeria’s fate in battling the Covid-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force and the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) are discernibly doing their utmost to combat the pandemic. Yet Nigeria is way behind the required response curve. If Nigeria’s…
April 9, 2020
Last week, the video clip of Nollywood popular actress, Adah Ameh trended like the notorious coronavirus all over the social media space. She simply reminded those in authority what they already know but have refused to do. She was pointedly bitter and blunt in her submissions. She vented her spleen on a system that takes…
April 7, 2020
These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it seems almost no nation is spared. As infection rates rise, so does panic across financial markets, as economies drastically slow down and supply chains are severely disrupted. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. As…
April 4, 2020
Aliko Dangote is someone who believes in Nigeria. He has admitted severally and proudly that Nigeria made his fortune. Although he is a self made billionaire, now rated the richest Black man on earth, and richest man or woman, black, white or Arab in Africa, he would not have achieved that feat without the environment…
April 4, 2020
It ought not to be a hard sale to convince anyone that try as we may and have, Nigeria is well behind the emergency response curve required for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, now is the time to escalate the national resiliency level holistically, and in an unfettered manner. Luckily, we have global response examples,…
March 23, 2020
The New Diplomat’s Editorial Board Position on the subject matter The Nigerian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) led by then Foreign Affairs Minister, Major-General Joseph Nanven Garba in 1975 stunned participants when he pointedly asserted Nigeria’s strategic position in Africa, and why Nigeria was vigorously opposed to Apartheid. Crucially, Garba’s fascination for re-asserting the…
February 3, 2020
Mr. Philip Jakpor is the Head, Media and Campaigns, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN). He speaks with 'Dotun Akintomide (Online Editor, The New Diplomat), on why ERA/FoEN is targeting the entertainment industry as the next frontier of its Tobacco Control Campaign. Jakpor also bemoaned the delay in gazetting approved Tobacco Regulations by…
January 23, 2020
By Ejeviome Eloho Otobo This article is a continuation of the series on three big powers’ (China, America and Russia’s) relations with Africa. The focus of this article is on China-Africa relations. There are two contending perspectives on China’s relations with Africa. One perspective views China as a nation intent on “bulldozing” its way in…
January 9, 2020
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By Otobrise Omokaro Lately, tobacco corporations have been getting special mention in the news just like they have always wanted. They crave the publicity. From donations to governments, to unverified claims of new vaccines and proposals for partnerships etc. One thing is certain: The same companies whose products kill an estimated 8 million people annually…
April 18, 2020
A well-worn cliché states that those who “Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail.” That has been Nigeria’s fate in battling the Covid-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force and the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) are discernibly doing their utmost to combat the pandemic. Yet Nigeria is way behind the required response curve. If Nigeria’s…
April 9, 2020
Last week, the video clip of Nollywood popular actress, Adah Ameh trended like the notorious coronavirus all over the social media space. She simply reminded those in authority what they already know but have refused to do. She was pointedly bitter and blunt in her submissions. She vented her spleen on a system that takes…
April 7, 2020
These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it seems almost no nation is spared. As infection rates rise, so does panic across financial markets, as economies drastically slow down and supply chains are severely disrupted. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. As…
April 4, 2020
Aliko Dangote is someone who believes in Nigeria. He has admitted severally and proudly that Nigeria made his fortune. Although he is a self made billionaire, now rated the richest Black man on earth, and richest man or woman, black, white or Arab in Africa, he would not have achieved that feat without the environment…
April 4, 2020
It ought not to be a hard sale to convince anyone that try as we may and have, Nigeria is well behind the emergency response curve required for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, now is the time to escalate the national resiliency level holistically, and in an unfettered manner. Luckily, we have global response examples,…
March 23, 2020
The New Diplomat’s Editorial Board Position on the subject matter The Nigerian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) led by then Foreign Affairs Minister, Major-General Joseph Nanven Garba in 1975 stunned participants when he pointedly asserted Nigeria’s strategic position in Africa, and why Nigeria was vigorously opposed to Apartheid. Crucially, Garba’s fascination for re-asserting the…
February 3, 2020
Mr. Philip Jakpor is the Head, Media and Campaigns, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN). He speaks with 'Dotun Akintomide (Online Editor, The New Diplomat), on why ERA/FoEN is targeting the entertainment industry as the next frontier of its Tobacco Control Campaign. Jakpor also bemoaned the delay in gazetting approved Tobacco Regulations by…
January 23, 2020
By Ejeviome Eloho Otobo This article is a continuation of the series on three big powers’ (China, America and Russia’s) relations with Africa. The focus of this article is on China-Africa relations. There are two contending perspectives on China’s relations with Africa. One perspective views China as a nation intent on “bulldozing” its way in…
January 9, 2020
