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...

Nigerian Healthcare System: A Ticking Time Bomb

Unlike past years when duly and ably qualified health professionals were at the helm of affairs at the General Hospitals, it is gradually becoming a familiar scenario, especially in South Western Nigeria, for opulent potbellied politicians to parade themselves as heads of the Hospital Management Board...

The Minister Of Health: Who Does The Cap Fit?

If Health Professional Associations are honest and humble enough to put away professional pride and haughtiness which smacks of self-conceit and delusion, this lingering war of attrition among them will become history...

The lack of drinking water and dangers of water boreholes

The cost and damage brought by drinking of parasite infected water with its borne diseases are very high, which mostly affect new born babies and children. This is a major contributory to the abysmal high infant mortality rate in Africa and Nigeria...

Tuberculosis: Save One, Save All

It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away, then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled him, his lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., he felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood...

Acid-Rain And Cancer Scare In Nigeria!

Incessant Gas flaring has introduced chemicals, particulate matter or biological materials that can cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, and damage the natural environment in parts of Nigeria...

Another World Cancer Day: Nigeria's Prognosis

While on clinical posting to the department, I met a woman who just had her worst fear confirmed, she was diagnosed to have a madly spreading cancer in her left breast...

Drug Abuse and The Nigeria Youth

In the past, drugs were not as strong and potent as they are now. Even the so-called 'Natural' or soft drugs like marijuana or 'skunk' are many times more powerful than they were in the 1980's...

Nigerians are also Dying from Prescription Medications

Africa is besieged with numerous unexplained deaths. Many could rightly be attributed to the consequences of poverty and dearth of a well organised and non-epileptic healthcare and social infrastructures. The reality is that we also have our own deaths from medications...

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Pat Utomi And The Restoration Group

We are still heavily involved in money politics. This may be of concern to our friend Professor Pat Utomi and his Restoration Group, unless they start now to plan on ways to counter such negative effects of money politics on their 2007 plans...

A Synopsis of How Trump Won A divisive Election in US

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My Mother in-law Is In The Trunk!

My mother is an African mother in-law! I was raised with three other siblings and my experiences growing up and ever since, are night and day compared with the gory, highly emotive melodramatic tale foisted upon us by our gifted embellisher in-chief, Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde!

Obasanjo Plans to Squander Nigeria’s Foreign Reserve

"Madam, I just want you to be more communicative with people. I have just called you to ask a simple question and you are ripping me apart as if I am some hardened criminal. I am not a criminal..."

Oprah’s Campaign of Calumny Against Nigeria

Sadly and painfully, it has come to pass that our daughter, the highly achieved and accomplished Oprah Winfrey, has chosen to add her high profile voice to the campaign of calumny against Nigerians and invariably, Nigeria...

Us Operational Security In Jeopardy?

There is a problem with understanding American self-imposed commitments to Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea and other diplomatic/military support for some Middle East states...

Niger Delta: Does Yar’Adua Have a Post-Conflict Reconstruction Plan?

When it is all said and done - more so in the Niger Delta - the government has to do what, in the first instance, it failed to do: do what is right in the eyes of the oil-producing communities. Otherwise, the conflict will continue and intensify...

C.I.D. Maduabum: At the Engine-room of PDP Revival

It takes enormous hard work behind the scenes for...

PDP Domination: Blame the Opposition

Some of the opposition leaders should be blamed for contributing to the death of viable and sustainable opposition politics in the country since the advent of this democratic journey nine years ago...

The Guardian Newspapers: Conscience, Nurtured by Truth!

Alex Ibru (1 March 1945 – 20 November 2011) was...