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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Jega'a Wobbly Start and Our Huge Expectations

Contrary to expectations, the much awaited parliamentary election in Nigeria turned to a huge anti-climax. The hype, the high hope and the huge expectation loaded into the election to start what is considered a critical test of democracy flailed and floundered...

Dateline 2011: Okenwa For President!

I come before you as an angry patriot seriously disturbed by the way and manner our great nation is being run down by the mediocre 'leaders' since our flag independence...

Yar'Adua's Return and the Endgame

Everything happening in Nigeria today points to the fact that the end game is getting to its critical stage. This should be expected from a country with such convoluted and greatly scrambled space as Nigeria...

Farewell to Legends!

Few weeks ago the world boxing community in particular...

The Questions Governor Adeleke Has Refused to Answer

By Olusola Iyiade In the theatre of power, silence is...

Obasanjo, Jonathan, the Message and the Messenger

There is little doubt that the recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has greatly rattled the president, his men and his supporters. The letter did nothing to mask the angst of Obasanjo who was at his sanctimonious best, as he reeled out a long litany of the misdeeds of Jonathan...

Facebook etcetera, the new Zapitski

Who really is Mark Zukerberg, aka the founder of Facebook? How old is he? How possible is it for a school drop out and for a chap less than forty years old to develop so novel an idea just for the sake of socialising? Did he really ‘originate’ Facebook or is he just a front for an elite intelligence network?

The 21st Century Scholar

The illiterate of the 21st century, in the words of the American writer Alvin Toffler, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn...

Why Are Nigerians Unable To Feed Well?

Some rich people are by far the most vulnerable victims of malnutrition, going by the dictionary definition that malnutrition could be ‘’an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to bodily harm”.

Licensed to drive, licensed to cheat

Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who use the licenses to impersonate and defraud...