Health

Drug Tests For Nigerian Politicians And Their Aides

In Nigeria, we always ask the question, “Are you on drugs?” when someone behaves in a way inconsistent with accepted social and human standards....

Double Standards In The Drug War: NDLEA Cast Into Shadows By Excessive Pardons

When President Tinubu recently granted clemency to 175 convicts — including over 40 illegal miners, around 28 drug traffickers, and several murderers — public...

Kwashiorkor Returns With Renewed Hopelessness

The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty...

The Return of Kwashiorkor

The deadly kwashiorkor disease that was so much associated with the Biafra war has made a return to peacetime Nigeria. It was not a pretty...

GMO Foods Can Kill

In the Summer of 2008, I was part of a team that visited Germany on a 3-month training on Environmental journalism.  As part of...

That we may not die in hospitals abroad

Last year 2023, the tragic news of the death of a governor of one of the Southwest states took place. Before he died in...

Health Sector Development in Nigeria, the Ewu Alternative

Many people experience dietary and health difficulties. Probably because of their ages and past lifestyle, they become afflicted with ailments that require them to...

UK Ban on Nigerian Doctors, the Federal Medical Clinic Abuja Angle

A child in my family needed a test result as prerequisite for entrance into a training programme. We already knew that the Gwarimpa General...

Nigeria’s Mental Health Conundrum And The Way Forward For Africa’s Most Populous Country

In November, 2018, the Federal Ministry of Health posited that 60 million Nigerians suffer from one mental illness or the other. This rather shocking...

Osun, COVID-19 palliatives and Nigeria’s unpolished politics

In the last few days, the social media has been besieged by a trending video of the looting of warehouses in the premises of...

Buhari, Health of the Nigerian Nation and the Human Body

The Nigerian Human Body and the Body of the Nigerian Nation are continually interacting with one another. They ought to be interacting harmoniously but...

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Cognitive Therapy for Buhari’s Traducers

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CBN, nationalised banks and investors

Numerous stakeholders in the financial industry and Nigerians in general have well-observed over time, that Malam Sanusi’s carefree and occasionally inconsistent policy pronouncements on certain burning fiscal issues concerning Nigerian and foreign investors alike, leave much to be desired...

A Date With A Prostitute

Abuja is replete with seemingly innocent streets that house prostitutes of different hues and shapes at night...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man...

Nigerians in Diaspora Making an Impact

We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to religious activities such as church planting and having mega pseudo-religious conferences without a corresponding transformation of the Diaspora and the Nigerian society.  These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...

The insensitivity of Abuja land swap and demolitions

Sometimes it seems those selected or elected to rule us are more of aliens than human beings like most of us. This is so because of their inhuman and unsympathetic attitudes to their fellow countrymen and women as they carry out their myopic policies...

The Role of Civil Society and Governmental Agencies in the Fight against Corruption, Poverty and Terrorism in Africa

The governance process in Africa is reflective of the current democratic wave and to this extent; it is abundantly evident that increasingly the continent is shifting away from the pervasive trend of “bad” governance towards “good” governance...

We all must be involved

Sometime ago in 1985, some musicians heeded the call...

Naija Notes: Lawyers! Lawyers! Liars!

Sometimes when we get that which we want, it leaves a terribly sour taste in the mouth...

Money Has Wings

“Where did all my money suddenly go to?” That was a question my friend asked, directed to no one in particular as he looked at the share prices of companies in the stock exchange market published in the day’s newspaper...