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...

Poverty and Infertility in Africa: Medical Evidence versus Divine Providence

The fertility conundrum is not totally against the rich. It’s been documented that they have easier access to fertility experts to sort out what the problem really is. While most poor couples beseech churches, mosques and traditional healing homes in search of the fruit of the womb...

Public health issue: non-communicable diseases

Just as Nigeria is still battling with the prevention and control of communicable diseases, the burden of non-communicable diseases has begun to rise in the most populous black nation in the world...

The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on Road Traffic Accidents

The most important steps to be taken in order to stay out of trouble on the road are to; continuously observe the roads around you, anticipate what may happen that could be a risk to you and other road users, and respond by taking appropriate quick steps or actions before the risk increases...

The vulnerability of pregnant women and children

Women and children are high risk groups due to pregnancy complications as well as growth and development of the child and our failure to provide essential services to this group has led to high maternal, infant and child mortality...

Health of the nigerian people: not a national priority

The 2011 federal budget which put health at number four position behind defense, education and police has again brought to the fore the fact that the health of the Nigerian people is not a national priority...

Dangers of smoking tobacco

Smoking of tobacco has been listed as one of the major causes of preventable deaths. It is a risk factor for lung cancer, hypertension, emphysema, cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, prostate cancer...

The National Health Bill Brouhaha

Since the first republic, Nigerian legislature has been passing bills ranging from serious national issues like national security to selfish laughable and unarguably comic ones like the one that apportioned a sizable portion of the national cake to political office holders’ wives...

Health care financing in Nigeria

Financing health systems is a major challenge in both developed and developing countries, but Nigeria has yet to show the ability to face this challenge so that the health system can benefit all the citizens of the country...

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Baying For Obasanjo’s Blood

It is instructive to note that I have severely criticised Obasanjo’s style of governance and his administrative failures in many articles, but I have never subjected him to personal abuses and insults, as many people do...

Two Wanted Men for Aso Rock in April 2011!

April 2011 must be a mandate that is informed and result-oriented. And in this regard we only have two credible candidates in the race today. They may not be as credible as Obafemi Awolowo or...

The Dasukigate Embezzlement Mess and Our Financial Institutions

Since our anti-graft agency, Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (2)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

Of Fulbright, Full Truths and Being Brightly You

Fulbright is many, many things wrapped up in one....

Do Bad Things Really Happen to Bad People?

I've always liked this Somerset Maugham quote: "I do...

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!

How to End the Bully Culture in America

Looking at the spate of rape allegations in the...

Ending The Slavery Blame Game By Henry Louis Gates: A Rejoinder

It was with considerable agitation and extreme irritation that I read Henry Louis Gates' pedestrian essay on slave trade and reparations, published in The New York Times...

Why We Are Cheap

I was just curious to know two things – one, what is that tangible thing that we as Nigeria or Nigerians have ever produced that is of benefit to the world? Two, what is it that Nigeria has ever produced that has come cheap and which is affordable like those Chinese phones?