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...

The Incessant Doctors' Strike in Nigeria

There is a colossal loss of lives even with doctors in attendance; one can only imagine the number of lives lost as a result of incessant doctors' strike across the federation. This is the least the nation needs as it approaches another round of elections...

Curative Services vs. Preventive Services

Preventive services is not given the pride of place due to belief by some health personnel that the curative services which is expensive and unaffordable by the poor citizens will lose its relevance in the medical and health fields...

Global Malaria Control: It’s Time To Cast Down The Net

Maybe as her own demonstration of love during the Valentine season, the First Lady of Nigeria – Dame Patience Jonathan on Sunday 13th day of February 2011 turned a portion of Aso Rock into a repository for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that were subsequently distributed to some categories of Nigerian women...

“Health Is Waste”, They Say!

Nigerians are worried over ostensible reluctance of the aspiring politicians. Their inability to tell the people what they have to offer when the whole country goes to polling boots to elect them into offices, this year, is one pain...

Understanding and Tackling Poverty-Inflicted Diseases

We can only imagine the number of Nigerians that would be spared the agony of living with preventable cancer if only they are aware of the right fruit to choose, and the herbs to chew...

HIV/AIDS in Africa: The Comedy Continues

Little can be achieved with the current falsehood and denial approach that most African countries are utilizing when it comes to HIV/AIDS and other issues. However, accepting failure is the first step towards being successful...

When Will Nigeria Reform its Health Care?

One cannot help but wonder when the Nigerian government will begin to reform its healthcare. This is against the backdrop that Nigeria does not seem to have a clear, concrete and comprehensive health policy...

How not to roll-back malaria in Nigeria

While Nigeria was signing up to an international MOU of some sort to “support local production of malaria drugs and products” on the one hand, it is, on another, taking actions that may undermine the same local pharmaceutical firms...

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MASSOB Leader: Before The Court Date

To the millions of Ndigbo and many Nigerians, Uwazurike is nothing less than a peaceful revolutionary whose gospel of non-violent change is something that must be hearkened to...

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Of Supreme Courts and Electoral Outcomes

In choosing to retain the status quo, by keeping in office a president, albeit one devoid of the public acclaim of the Nigerian people, the Supreme Court appears to have settled upon the best possible outcome out of a number of ‘worse case’ scenarios...

PDP: Victim of their own Impunity

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A Summer Without The Boys

Since I have been living abroad, one of the things I look forward to every year is my annual summer holidays in Nigeria. A time normally reserved for me and the boys to get into all sorts...

Stemming Hemorrhage In NDDC through Citizen Forensic Audit

The earliest intentions made to stem the tide of...

Was Jega’s Appointment as INEC Chairman A Mistake?

It is part of the Nigerian condition that our yesterday has a way of being better than our today. Otherwise who will ever think that in less than two months of being INEC Chairman, Jega seems to be already making Maurice Iwu look good?

A Trip to the Pool of Opportunities: Deborah Dagogo recounts how it all started

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Revolution Is Impossible In Nigeria? Some Say NEVER! Says Who?

Since the political and constitutional upheaval in Tunisia, followed by Egypt and now Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and so on, some Nigerians have publicly commented that Nigerians can only dream of Egyptian and Tunisian style revolutions and political uprising...