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...

Death Without Notice – Cardiac Arrest

While the world is trying to come to terms with the surreal and unfortunate passage of the legendary Music and entertainment Icon, Michael Jackson, it is imperative to give a thought to how these kinds of incidents can be medically and preventatively managed...

Do You Feel Sleepy at Work?

Sleepiness at work is as a result of insufficient sleep. Apart from refreshing the body and giving one a good jumpstart for a new day, sleep has numerous benefits…

Health, Hygiene, Fitness Nigerians

Most foods abroad, unlike in Nigeria, are laden with artificial preservatives, and sweeteners in order to prolong food shelf-life through the rigors of manufacture, distribution, sale...

Restoring Health To The Agenda In Nigeria – Report From A Conference

On a cold morning last Saturday, over 200 professionals with a commitment to improving the health of Nigerians met at the Gustave Tuck lecture theatre of University College, London...

When There is no Toilet…

Most Nigerians, particularly in Lagos, from whatever social class they belong, have no access to toilets and no toilet culture, so they answer nature’s call anywhere they please...

Still In The Dark About HIV/AIDS

Against the backdrop of the alarming increase in the number of Nigerians contracting HIV,  investigations reveal that a high percentage of the population still hold on to age-old beliefs on contracting the deadly disease…

Tobacco Smuggling: The Seme And Cotonou Connections

Fazed by mounting pressures locally and internationally, British American tobacco, BAT, now somewhat relies on smugglers to continue to flood the market with their wares...

Nigeria: The Health, Economic and Social Menace of Smoking

From available information, it appears as if the Federal Capital Territory remains the only part of Nigeria conscious of the harmful effects of smoking. The recent prohibition of smoking in public places remains a commendable step but actions are still necessary to combat the monster...

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Reforms As Blinkers

In recent months, it has become the refrain of government spokesmen to attribute any negative fall-out from any policy or action of government to the natural painful consequences of reforms...

Rescuing Nigeria from the Rule of Lawlessness

A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these hinder the positive operation of the rule of law...

Ekwueme: The Democrat Who Gave Abacha Red Card

The soft, gentlemanly features of Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme...

Buhari’s Lies: Change that Changes Nothing

President Mohammadu Buhari has turned out to be the...

The Jos Carnage And Intellectual Endogamy

From the depth of my heart and with sincere tears dropping and flowing down my eyes and into my mouth with its salty taste, I condemn all previous ethnic massacres...

Abia abandons PDP for Progressive Peoples' Alliance

Everybody is crying in Abia State, except those cronies of the governor in government and those by the side who have ways of benefiting from the government...

Journeys to Owo and Benin City

Life is a journey. And all of the men and women who traverse its length and breadth are merely sojourners...

An Irritating Apologue – Ibadan People Do Not “Serve” the Same Leader Twice

I always take exception and umbrage at hearing that...

Rigger Takes All

Nigeria is in a class of its own. Other countries...

Now I get it! Most Americans don’t get it

1. Amphitheater of Naija gods Wahala, that aggressive goddess of...