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...

Our “Misdiagnosed” Healthcare System

I know too many Nigerian doctors, young and old, who come to the United States after being denied employment, pay raise or even promotion, take the requisite certifying Board examinations and pass in flying colors on their first attempt, and go on to become indispensable in their fields...

Can Malaria Be Eradicated In Africa?

Recent developments in the global health show that more resources are being allocated to the fight against malaria...

Picking Your Self Up Off The Floor Starts With 0

Twice a week for three freaking hours, I had to sit in a room and look into the faces of people just like me - except they were not me.  I had to look at my failures dead in the eye and face them.  If I had a gun, I would have gladly put a bullet in my head...

The Tress Of Stress

Anybody who is stressed can be compared to a laboratory rat that constantly gets a dose of electric shock...

Testing for HIV

Do sane people ever walk themselves to a clinic to test for HIV? That was the question that crossed my mind yesterday as I sat opposite a female counselor at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital...

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...

Udongo Itiaita, HIV/AIDS Education Handbook

After reading Udongo Itiaita, one comes off with the impression that this is a radical departure from the run-of-the-mill treaties that prescribe paternalistic, holier-than-thou admonitions on how to stay free from getting infected with HIV...

Help For Private Pains

Nobody, seeing Oyetunji, well-built and dressed in a T-shirt and jeans could imagine that he had managed to carry on without an organ that served as both his urinary tool and an index of his manhood...

Don't miss

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

Homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi ond Over-sexed South Africa

Why is it so important for Nigeria, Uganda, and now Malawi to squander public resources in the repression of homosexual and lesbian citizens within these African nations?

Again, History Beckons Barack Obama in Cuba

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you...

China as Friend and Partner to Africa

China invests wads and wads of Dollars in America. China in effect underwrites a great deal of American public debt. Why then is it that America does not tell China to go stuff her dollars elsewhere because of her infamous record on democracy and human rights?

Need for the Dollarization the Nigerian Naira

Ironically, because of the lack of confidence in our Naira, Nigeria is already Dollarized in an unofficial sense.  While the Naira is still the medium of exchange, it has virtually lost its other functions, particularly as a store of value...

Democracy, Governance and Credible Elections (2)

Let’s come to the issues of recruitment and selection....

Astonishing! So He Rose Up!!!

Yes. And a resounding yes that the Lord got...

The Afropolitan Fear of Traditional Religion

Available for sale in certain parts of Lagos are chopped human body parts. They may be sold from the back of a car or in more remote parts of neighboring towns. They are used most often for rituals requiring human sacrifice for gaining riches. The demand for these body parts is so high that Nigeria especially remains besieged by an undeclared state of emergency...

Pharaoh crumbles under the pyramids

Kano Pillars football club of Kano, Nigeria may well be justified in branding themselves as 'Conquerors of Pharaoh's almighty army of Red Devils'...

The Recovery of Nigeria's Financial Sector

It all started with the race to consolidation. An ultimate challenge to their very survival, the N25 billion consolidation turned banking into a fraud Ponzi scheme. Not even the Investment and Securities Act of 1999 could stop banks from gambling with depositors’ funds in the capital market...