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...

Medical Emergency (Non)Response in Nigeria

You get accidentally knocked down by a car in the middle of Ibadan…knocked down hard into unconsciousness…what do you think bystanders would do (or...

Of Brain Surgery and the Love of Money: Professor Temidayo Shokunbi and the rest of us

Professor Temidayo Shokunbi was believably flown into the glittering city of Abuja from his humble base at the University Collge Hospital, Ibadan, to attend...

Aso Rock Clinic: A Microcosm of Nigeria’s Healthcare System

You go in for severe headache. Without checking your pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature; without taking fluid samples and testing them,...

Will Nigeria Treat Drug Addicts any better?

Nigeria is a place where we choose to believe that drug abuse/dependence is alien to our culture. The prevalence of drug abuse is actually...

Quarantined Food and Other Absurdities

I have argued before that the Nigerian state appears organized around the principle of inflicting maximum emotional aggravation, and, often, severe physical pain, on...

The Suicide Syndrome

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." This is an important admonition to those reading or perusing this piece; to those who had at...

Use GMO for Electricity and Gas, not Food

In my days in secondary school, one of my best subjects was integrated science. That subject had Biology, Physics and Chemistry all fused in...

Importance of CPR In an Emergency Situation: Nigeria as a Case Study

Dear Sir, The Guardian publication of February 15, 2016 titled: "Valentine Tragedy: Assistant Commissioner of Police dies in Lagos Hotel" is a wakeup call to...

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Chris Abani: Lie$ of the Truth-Seller

It is instructive that when a comprehensive list of writers who have betrayed their readers' trust through lies is made, you will never find an African on that list. By African, I mean continental African writers, persons born in Africa, who experienced Africa, possibly started their writing career there...

There Will Be No Revolution In Nigeria: Iwa Lanwo Iwa

Those who have been calling for revolution in Nigeria do not mean well for Nigeria. Some are disgruntled elements who are not well-placed any more in the scheme of things and so are unhappy about their irrelevance...

The Intellectual Content of Nigerian Politics

By intellectual content, I mean that fulcrum where one finds and interlocks philosophical, legal, political and sundry ideas that assist humans to form the synthesis for solving societal problems...

Nadia Buari: “I Think Guys Love Me More”

Actress Nadia Buari is one of the trail-blazing faces...

Dewdrops of Memory: Isanlu and the Islam that I knew

The Islam that I knew was already in full swing decades before my head kissed the earth of Isanlu, my home town in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. As is the case all over Nigeria and Africa, life in Isanlu was suffused in colourful forms of traditional spiritual expression until Christianity arrived...

Mediocrity Rules In The Ministry Of Justice

When it seems that sanity and confidence in the Nigerian legal system is being restored after the atrocities of the Abacha years, and the uncertainties of the Obasanjo Administration, we are now regressing...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

Impeach Saraki Mob and Anti-Democratic Antics of Adams Oshiomhole: Nigeria’s Democracy in Danger

The desperation of the chairman of All Progressive Congress...

The Nigerian Energy Conundrum (2)

The future of Nigeria like that of other developing nations ultimately rests on the supply of adequate and reliable sources of energy necessary for sustainable growth and development...

Story of My Life: Marrying My Own Sister & Turning Sixty

I cannot believe that I am the jolly good...