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...

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...

Nigerian Medical Personnel as Merchants of Death

The attitude of Nigerian medical personnel towards their patients leaves much to be desired. Pointedly said, the average patient in Nigeria faces grave risks in the hands of our medical doctors, nurses and hospitals whether private or public…

The Low Down On The “Down Low”

Men on the "down-low" are males who don't want society to know about their sexual relations with men. They date women to cover themselves, or are heterosexual males who prefer women but occasionally have sex with men. Studies show that they are largely contributing to the rise of HIV infection among Black women...

Doctors' Strike: The Fear And The Tear!

Unfortunately, too many of Nigerians suffered or lost their lives because they weren’t given the right clinical diagnosis, right medicine and or the proper medicine application...

Leaders Who Steal – A Psychiatrist’s Perspective (Part 1)

In recent times, the issue of the psychiatric assessment of leaders and people in position of public trust in Nigeria has re-surfaced and it has merited some degree of public discourse...

Dying In Public

I hereby make public the news of the private death of a private man, who discovered the cure to AIDS; in the hope that when I discover an added cure to the disease, I would make it scientifically public, so when I die I die in the public...

NAFDAC: Agency For Security Fees Or Safe Foods?

In Nigeria, more than 3,000 substances are being added to foods for the purpose of preservation, coloring, texture, increasing flavor and more. While each of these substances is legal to use in Nigeria, whether or not they are all something you want to be consuming is another story all together...

NAFDAC: Agency For Security Fees Or Safe Foods?

In Nigeria, more than 3,000 substances are being added to foods for the purpose of preservation, coloring, texture, increasing flavor and more. While each of these substances is legal to use in Nigeria, whether or not they are all something you want to be consuming is another story all together...

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization with absolute military command, control and occupation of the area, continues to ignore and neglect the dire humanitarian disaster in and around Libya...

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Between Evangelical Opportunists and Opportunism

Religion, like politics, is an effective powerful weapon of social control. For good or bad it has transformed individual societies and shaped the faith of man towards divinity...

Who Wants to Elect Judges & Justices?

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Why Government must stop its Clampdown on #EndSARS Protesters

The recent, largely peaceful #EndSARS protests across several Nigerian...

Why IBB Cannot Be Trusted Again?

There is no doubt that IBB is desperate to redeem his battered image by becoming the next President. The game is up and rulers should be reminded again of the limits of their own devices...

The Culture of Exploitation and Officialization of Fraud: A Discourse on E-Passport 419neering

This article is an attempt to expose the culture of exploitation and officialization of fraud that has trailed the advent of the E-passport, with a paid focus on the Diaspora community...

This Thing About Super-Size Me

I now know that I have reached my breaking point, not only because my clothes don’t fit anymore but it is increasingly becoming difficult and expensive to find clothes that fit...

The Truth

Nigerians owe the country and our rulers the duty to tell them the truth. This is because truth is like a shining sun which will prevail over darkness. Honesty brings transparency which is a vital instrument in nation building...

And they said Mr. President is not a human being…

We recommend to Mr. President once again: declare a full and total emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa...