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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How One Billion Naira can make Nigeria a Super Power

If I have a billion Naira, I will ask no more. With my one billion Naira, I will put Nigeria on the map of the super power...

U.S Foreign Policy and the Niger Delta Conflict

A critical examination of America’s foreign policy in the last two decades proves she is concerned with environment issues and with matters dealing with social dislocations, international health challenges and uncontrollable migration that are likely to constrict its resources...

A Review of Lugard’s Amalgamation Diplomacy

The ungovernable nature of the Nigerian state point to...

The House is Mine – Sokoto Governor

“The House was leased from 1999 until 2004, when I completed payment for the house. I bought it from a Sokoto businessman who lived in that house for about thirty years.”

How Climate Change Negatively Affects Nigerian Women

By Dorcas Edet Global warming, which is the long-term increase...

Why (Not) Biafra

I believe that a nation need not be a...

Is Col. Abubakar Umar A Dark Horse For Aso Rock in 2011?

On a balance of political probabilities, it would not seem too farfetched, I think, to postulate that come May 2011, there may very well be a different Helmsman at the rudder of controls of our national Ship of State...

A Virulent Form of Absurdity: When Society and Politics go Insane

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding...

Faith-Step to Eternity with God

We don’t labor to receive gifts. A gift is what somebody else labored for and gives out freely. The Labor of Christ on the Cross; to save our souls, is a theme that runs throughout eternity. All the labors of men since Adam and after now put together cannot save one single soul...

Jungle Drums Welcome Pastor Adeboye To Madison Square Gardens!

All powers including scientific, nuclear and even Black or Voodoo power all belong to God without any doubt. So are natural powers or natural disasters like the Tsunami, the Volcanoes and the Earthquakes and the Land slides. Since God creates the Oceans and the Lands and the forces within them that make such natural disasters possible, one can reasonably argue, it is the same God that can fully explain such forces...