Health

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …