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...

How Safe Are Instant Noodles?

For many years now, instant noodles appear to have become one of the most favourite meals in many homes in this part of the world, and seem...

Tobacco: When Will The World Defeat This Menace?

On May 31, 2015, 'World No Tobacco Day' (WNTD) was once again marked across the world. The theme for this year’s campaign is: “Stop...

Bird Flu: All Eyes On Nigeria?

Recently (January 2015), Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in eleven states of the federation. The states affected...

Child Sexual Abuse: Recreating Tomorrow by Taking Definitive Action Today

Statistics detailing the extent of perpetration of child sexual abuse is hugely alarming. Projections show that this statistics will increase if something is not...

A 21st Century Health Care Delivery System/Policy in Nigeria: Myth or Reality?

As the saying goes, Health is Wealth. Nigerians and indeed the international community were very pleased with the way Federal and state governments, indeed...

How the Ebola Virus Got To Nigeria

Now that we got the ‘all clear’ and we have been able to reasonably restrain the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria,...

Governor Amaechi’s N1.406B Ebola fund

On October 15 2014, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State stole the show at the formal declaration of former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, to run...

Expectant mothers in Nigeria prefer religious homes to hospitals

The indisputable fact that Nigeria is a religious country is even affecting the psyche of many pregnant women. They have a confidence that with their faith...

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Sovereign National Conference: For the Avoidance of Doubt

It has been widely reported in the media that Nobel Laureate and social activist, Professor Wole Soyinka and Yale educated economist, Olu Falae have declared their intention to convene a Sovereign National Conference in the immediate future...

Zik, High Priests and Curses

Rather than see Okadigbo's ugly sidekick as an acid humour or at worst, a benign blether from an ambitious political office jobber, Zik saw a chilling Kafkaesque aberration in the insult. Rather than dignifying the insult with reasoned rebuttal, Zik sought supernatural settlement…

An Air of Error: Prevention, Response Deterrence

Air crashes in Nigeria are like coming of age ceremonies, where the attendees air their closets, stride their wares, get immolated and conclude the lessons of the day by wrapping up and behaving like it never happened. After the Dana disaster that has claimed the lives of tens of our fellow citizens, if history were to repeat itself we can guarantee nothing will come of it...

How to be a Deputy Governor

Why any politician would aspire or accept to be a worthless “spare tyre” deputy governor or any type of second-in-command at all in this warped democracy is one question I have always pondered on having observed with depression the plight of those politicians...

Biafra Is Dead, Buried And No More!

The time has come to speak up, time for those of us who believe in one indivisible Nigeria as sacrosanct, time for us to raise awareness and perhaps raise alarm as well, regarding the increasing specter of the spread of the phantom excitement thing that is the so-called Biafra!

This Government and the Need for a Convinced Public Perception

What happened to Nigeria? Simple. It's been run by thieves and morons for decades and ignorant Nigerians keep on electing them...

Some Mothers Do Have Them…

General Ibrahim Babagida attempted to perpetuate himself in power. Abacha employed all strategies to achieve the same thing. Today, all we speak about is Obasanjo staying longer in power. Some mothers do have some funny children...

Nigerian Big-Shots, Big Egos and Sugar-Daddies

There is something about small and narrow-minded people that vexes me. East or West, North or South, they all have three things in common: haughtiness, roguery, and the propensity to subjugate the common man...

Nwosu And June 12: A Call For Social Action

I have now come to the conclusion that members of the ruling cabal in Nigeria are plain demons. I thank God that those generation of unpatriotic military officers are gradually losing their firm grip on power...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of...