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...

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...

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...

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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Of Looters, Leaders and The EFCC List

It was written in very bold headlines in the Nigerian Tribune that the “Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the names of 56 Nigerians it alleged collectively removed over N243 billion from the nation’s treasury...

A Flawed and Vague Sense of Morality and Conscience

“Ex-Governor Storms Capital; Declares Intention to Return to Government...

Corruption Without The Immunity Clause

One of the most infuriating things about politics is the effort expended by politicians, pundits and partisans to hide very simple premises under layers and layers of self-serving bull crap...

Post Consolidation: How Safe Are Nigerian Banks?

Individual bank failures are expected to continue and the number may even rise. Yet, what is of utmost importance to the banking system is that confidence in it be maintained...

AMBO: the impact continues!

By Tife Ayodele As the Osun State governorship election approaches,...

The Retired Ambassador Peter Anegbeh’s Inaugural Diplomatic Coup d’état Speech: A Rejoinder (4)

Despite the fact that the diplomatic coup d'état staged by the retired Nigeria High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Peter Anegbeh, to oust the out-going leadership of NIDO-MY and usurp its leadership was considered foiled,  Mr. Anegbeh and his cohorts re-grouped and went ahead to conduct an unauthorized Annual General Meeting...

The Long Spoon Is An Illusion: Why Bad Governance Never Spares Anyone

There is a quiet but dangerous belief that thrives...

When Blow Becomes a Job, Trouble Ensues: 9ice vs Ruggedman

It's quite painful that unlike the popular notion that our leaders don't understand the plights of the masses, our singers too are demonstrating the same brutish approach in tackling their publicity crisis...

Recent Terror Attacks on Belgium and the Rest of Us

Brussels, the Belgian capital was hit on Tuesday,22nd March,...

Rewarding Loyalty – The Obasanjo/Andy Uba Story: Retraction And Sincere Apologies

I am somebody who takes pride in admitting my mistakes. It makes me human, because as they say, a man who does not make mistakes makes nothing at all. It is therefore with humble heart that I apologise to my readers for seemingly misleading...