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...

Nigerian, Heal Thyself

Every Nigerian is a physician, whether or not he or she went to medical school; we learn to diagnose ailments and self-medicate at an early age...

Africans and Mental Health (2)

So there I was with several pills and two bottles of wine and a six-pack Heineken in my system when the cops showed up at my door and told me it was either I came willingly or they would drag me off to the hospital...

Ensuring Effective, Qualitative, Affordable and Accessible Health Care for All Nigerians Beyond 2007

Nigeria trains and develops human resources for health, but loses them to other sectors within the country and abroad due to relatively higher remuneration, welfare and motivation packages...

Go For A Medical Check Up If You Don’t Snore

Many couples are not happy sharing a bed because either spouse snore, even though investigation empirically shows that both of them snore...

Restoring Health To The Agenda, A Matter Of Life And Death (1)

In this piece, as a network of Nigerian public health professionals, we put forward our analyses of some of the issues that should be paramount in the health agenda for the next 4 years...

Restoring Health To The Agenda, A Matter Of Life And Death (2)

In this piece, as a network of Nigerian public health professionals, we put forward our analyses of some of the issues that should be paramount in the health agenda for the next 4 years...

Africans and Mental Health

Why am I writing about Mental Health issues?Well, ever since my pre-teen years, I have had panic attacks...

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The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

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For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar'Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how such empty sloganeering aids their political interests...