This Phase Shall Pass
We live in a world that is governed by laws; in order to enjoy the beauty, glamour, splendor and the luxury of the planet earth, human beings must understand several…
Medical Emergency (Non)Response in Nigeria
You get accidentally knocked down by a car in the middle of Ibadan…knocked down hard into unconsciousness…what do you think bystanders would do (or can do) to help save your…
Of Brain Surgery and the Love of Money: Professor Temidayo Shokunbi and the rest of us
Professor Temidayo Shokunbi was believably flown into the glittering city of Abuja from his humble base at the University Collge Hospital, Ibadan, to attend to the power-biking son of the…
Aso Rock Clinic: A Microcosm of Nigeria’s Healthcare System
You go in for severe headache. Without checking your pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature; without taking fluid samples and testing them, they diagnose you with Typhoid fever.…
Will Nigeria Treat Drug Addicts any better?
Nigeria is a place where we choose to believe that drug abuse/dependence is alien to our culture. The prevalence of drug abuse is actually very high in Nigeria and it…
Encounter with Dirty Fuel
If there are about 20 persons in Nigeria today who should know the deadly impact of the importation of Dirty Fuels to West Africa, I should be among the lot.…
Quarantined Food and Other Absurdities
I have argued before that the Nigerian state appears organized around the principle of inflicting maximum emotional aggravation, and, often, severe physical pain, on citizens and other occupants of the…
The Suicide Syndrome
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” This is an important admonition to those reading or perusing this piece; to those who had at one time or the other…
ECOWAS EU Energy Wars
I have been reading former Secretary General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand. That piece, published in the ‘G-7Germany: The…
Before the Marrakech Accord: why were we silent?
In the days before the Climate Change Conference COPP 22, lovers of our home the earth went to town soliciting support for a 50% plan for mother earth. According to…