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...

Malaria-infested Abia Government

It is observable that somebody in Abia State Government House, Umuahia, is taking a prescription for leprosy in the place of malaria...

The National Public Health Agency Alternative

There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria is faced with a lot of public health challenges and there is a need to design programs to address these problems in order to improve the health of the citizens...

Addressing the Public Health Challenges Nigeria Faces

The major public health challenges Nigeria faces are infectious diseases, sewage disposal, health insurance, water supply, air pollution, noise pollution, environmental radiation, housing, solid waste disposal, disaster management...

Rivers’ Free Medical Health Care?

Due to people’s different beliefs, it is evident that many do not take the issue of the health of their children seriously, and the health centres do not take seriously those who do...

Amaechi: The Port Harcourt Cancer Centre

Cancer, as we all know, is a dangerous ailment that has pummeled a lot of  people to the soil in this part of the world without a severe fight to stem the ugly disease...

HIV Prevention In Nigeria: Total Condomization versus Partial Segregation

Confusing and conflicting roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria as a country and the world at large have been counterproductive. Ideally, the social and family structures are expected to train up a child in the fear of God and instill good morals that would enable the child to decide personally to abstain from sex...

Beyond Stethoscope: Intrigues of AMLSN’s Work-To-Rule Exercise

Like the rich class, Mr. President may not be using the nation’s hospital services hence he might be less perturbed compared to lots of Nigerians. He, however, is saddled with the inundating task of making the nation’s hospitals perform maximally...

Virgin Diseases In The Twenty First Century

Demystifying the mythical Virgin’s Disease is clearly one of the biggest success stories of modern, science-based reproductive medicine. We can now wipe out an entire array of diseases without lifting a finger...

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Presidential Election: Observed Threats To Tinubu’s Prospect

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Democracy, Ideology and Loyalty

Democracy is a political paradigm, albeit, with a specific...

Boko Brothers and Haram Sisters

Before President Buhari left Abuja for London to, yet...

Dateline 2011: The President For These Times

Personally, I am very optimistic about the conduct and outcome of the election given the groundswell of public opinion clamouring for a repeat of June 12 - devoid of its criminal abominable annulment...

Poverty Alleviation In Nigeria: How Effective?

It appears to me that many Nigerian leaders do not understand what it takes to alleviate the suffering of the poor masses of the country. Their programmes for poverty alleviation can hardly build people’s lives and provide them with better living conditions...

Naija Notes: Madness is sweet!

A certain man from our home town has confessed to setting the NNPC complex on fire...

Is Goodluck Jonathan Sincere Enough?

Dr. Jonathan has been given the opportunity by Nigerians and a coalition of civil society group to write his name in gold. He should not allow the enemies of Nigeria to tarnish his image and reputation...

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...

Opinion Poll: Preaching in Public Transport Buses

I was on the bus on my way to work one morning when a loud voice from somewhere behind me erupted into song; it belonged to a man with what I imagined must be an extra large voice box...

Nigeria: The Road to Failure

Like many of the failed or failing states, elections in Nigeria do not provide a just and veritable platform for its teeming masses to change an abysmally bad system of governance...