Madagascar As A State of Mind, By Simbo Olorunfemi
How can it be so difficult to subject these 'remedies' to the simple process of verification to be able to obtain approval and possible large scale production? Why does everyone who comes up with a remedy want to see the minister? Is there a problem at the National Agency for…
Using Mathematics To Understand and Control the Coronavirus Pandemic, By Abba B. Gumel
By using rigorous mathematical analysis, coupled with data analytics to parameterise the models, the models can be used to first reproduce the observed trajectory of the disease (, the model can be validated by showing that it reasonably mimics the observed data, vis a vis the initial number of cases,…
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COVID-19: Face Masking and Keeping Healthy, By Kayode Ojewale
...non-medical face masks should be sun-dried or iron-pressed alternatively after washing. The heat, as a form of sterilisation, is believed to keep any virus still stuck at bay. Some health experts also advise that a facemask wearer should remove it from their face with two hands at the same time.…
COVID-19, NAFDAC and the Extended Lockdown, By Kayode Ojewale
...in these additional days of the extended lockdown period, we shall get it better and the Nigerian government will truly address the plight of its citizens with various stimulus packages being distributed. There needs to be even distribution in the society and the right the packages intended to relieve their…
Northern Nigeria: The Futility of Fighting Modernity and Development, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
- A technology Hackathon in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Perhaps, the North should also be told that the pre-Sokoto Jihad mindset cannot work anymore. The Muslim world has moved on. Saudi Arabia, the custodian of Islam, has its citizens studying in the best universities in the world. And, the great citadels…
When Your Diet Works Against You, By Kayode Ojewale
The consumption of diets high in processed content may lead to life-threatening health consequences and will ultimately hasten one’s journey to the grave. When we religiously and consciously monitor what we consume, we make our diets work for us and not against us. Most times we are compelled to take…
Herbal Drugs: Bridging the Gap Between Tradition and Academia, By Kayode Ojewale
With the guiding regulatory and research support from NAFDAC and NIPRD, herbal medicine practitioners and manufacturers are well positioned to champion the coming together of tradition and academia in Nigeria for the delivery of scientific herbal medicare alternatives. Nature itself is the best physician – Hippocrates (460 - 370 BC)…
The Return of Krest and Tuketuke, By Louis Odion
...proclamation” is also euphemistic of “Tuketuke” politics rebranded, with some of the partisans obviously chaffing under the yoke of disrupted “stomach infrastructure” and the rupture of juice pipelines, now preferring to dance naked and barefoot at the communal square, not ashamed to flaunt necklaces made of a glutton’s teeth. After…
A Deadly Feud Between Two Federal Agencies, By Kayode Ojewale
It is therefore hightime the ministries supervising these agencies stopped the needless media war between NAFDAC and NAQS over the use or ban of methyl bromide as fumigant. Since human health is involved, the argument over whose purview it is to announce the ban of such poisonous pesticide is unacceptable.…
Drug Abuse: Killing Nigeria Softly, By Kayode Ojewale
Recently, a report of the first ever survey on drug use in Nigeria was released. The survey, which was supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the European Union, revealed that about million Nigerians, representing about per cent of the country’s population between ages 15 to…
