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...

My Dear Nigerians, Ebola is Here, Do Not Trivialize This

There is a tendency in this country called Nigeria for us to trivialize everything. When a serious issue comes up and gets widespread attention, instead of attaching the importance that it demands to it, we look for a way to turn it into a joke...

An Embarrassing Healthcare System

Of all the roadblocks that exist in the Nigerian healthcare system, disharmony and rivalry among health professionals is the biggest challenge. Doctors care more about remuneration than healthcare reforms...

Nutrition: South-East and South-South endangered by pollution

Malnutrition is widespread in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria. Observations are that malaria, anemia and other epidemics are prevalent in the provinces...

Is Something Wrong Or You Are Just Wrong That Something Is Wrong?

Whether you are a pastor, soldier, business man or woman, politician, journalist, whatever you do for a living, you'd better take some time to rest. If you don’t, doctors will keep on digging into your body...

Memo To Dr. Jonathan On Healthcare

Research has shown that there is a strong correlation between health of a nation’s citizens and its development and this is neither a myth nor fallacy. If we must experience economic growth, the Nigerian government must take the health of its citizens seriously...

Comprehensive Health Centres: Lagos State and Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria

Nigerian governments, over the years, have voted barely single digits of our budgets to health contrary to international recommendations and the requirements of the World Health Organisation...

Policies hampering Nigeria from eradicating malaria

There were sanitary inspectors in the 70s and 80s and early 90s. But from the middle of the 90s to date, things went awry. Substandard drugs replaced the
sanitary inspectors...

The Role of Health Care in Socio-Economic Development of Nigeria

Nigeria is a nation rich in natural resources and earthly beauty. However, there are a number of issues blocking its socio-economic growth and development. Chief among these issues are the problems of healthcare and unemployment...

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From Yahoo-Yahoo to kidneys for money?

This latest “kidney-for-money” bazaar by these young, mischievous ones sure continues to hammer the country’s image badly in the international system...

Scintillators of Primitive Politics: Nigerian Ruling Class Chalantry and Our Marginalized Under-Class

I start with our marginalized under-class.  They are those who did not have the benefit of enlightenment in their youth...

Excessive speed as a vital human factor in road traffic accident

Speeding is one of the common offenses under road traffic law that have to be taken with seriousness as many people lose their lives each year due to careless speeding...

Buhari: His Winnowing Fork In His Hand

The monthly revenue allocation to the three tiers of...

Race-Relations Regressing In America

O'Reilly and persons like him just make my head spin, what with the monumental ignorance that they publicly exhibit? His dumb comments encapsulate and exemplify the state of affairs in race-relations in today's America...

The Dishonourable Africans

In case you are one of those who do not believe that our world is sick and in need of a divine healing, please pass over this essay...

Success Is Free

You can choose a goal and decide whether you want to do the work that is required or not. You're free to choose success. You're at liberty to accept success. Everyone is invited but not everyone will accept the invitation.

How Dangote Is Double-crossing Nigeria!

There is no doubt in my mind that Alhaji Dangote is a smart businessman but it is the responsibility of the government to regulate business not to be in their pocket...

What Is Neither 'Good' Nor 'Lucky' About Goodluck Jonathan

The Nigerian state has been taken over at all levels by a criminal cartel and if we are to move forward we need to take them on...

A Parable of the President’s Church

Most big Nigerian politicians encounter no law – divine or secular – they feel tempted to observe. In fact, to be a prominent politician is to be above all laws, God’s and man’s alike...