Nigerians to Pay More Tax Amid Collapsing Health Care System And Spike in COVID-19 Fatality
BY CHIMA NWAFO The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has approved additional tax with greater impact on the lower income group hit harder by the crippling effects of the coronavirus, which infection and fatality rates are rising even as medical workers express concern over the inability of government to contain the ravaging pandemic. But the Federal Government’s reaction to the plight of the frontline workers articulated during the warning strike ofthe National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) does not show sufficient understanding of the potential danger of the long neglected health delivery system. On the state of affairs in the distressing healthcare system and the tribulations of medicalworkers, Adelaja Adeoye told The Guardian: “The poor working conditions are part of …
Five Negative Implications of Overflowing Garbage Bins City Managers, Residents Must Prevent
By Chima Nwafo As the fatality and infection figures of the coronavirus…
Why Flooding Remains A Recurring Menace In Nigeria’s Urban And Coastal Areas
By Chima Nwafo One Igbo adage translates: A scheduled war does not…
South-East Still Sinking With Over 2,800 Gully Erosion Sites, Eight Years After World Bank-Funded NEWMAP
By Chima Nwafo The day power brokers realise that the Nigeria project…
COVID-19 Fatality Rate In Europe: Scientists Blame Air Pollution, Likely Factor In Nigeria’s Infection Pattern
For a government led by a political party formed by an aggregation…
Growing Menace Of Ecological Despoliation Federal And State Governments Brush Aside
Chima Nwafo From desert encroachment up-North, the deepening erosion in the South-east,…
Anxiety Over Mystery Deaths In Rivers Amid Pending Environmental Issues As Governors Focus On Coronavirus
By Chima Nwafo Given the Nigerian government’s contempt for history public office-holders,…
Nigeria’s Multi-Billion Dollar WASH Projects Foreshadowed Covid-19 Demands, Now We’re Learning the Essence Of Hygiene
BY CHIMA NWAFO Although water has always featured prominently in Nigeria’s development…
Why Delta State Should Reject Musa’s Findings On Floating Dead Croakers
By Chima Nwafo Most Nigerians - young and old, men and women…
Health, Economic Woes Of Floating Dead Croakers Along Delta Coastline, A Challenge To Niger Delta Governors
By Chima Nwafo Sometime in the mid-1980s, I read an American novel…
