Monday, February 6th, 2012
Health
For A Better Nursing
Nurses face certain challenges which affect their attitudes to work The image of an average nurse in Nigeria, in the mind of a patient, is a bad copy: rudeness, lack
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Parents In Pains
Parents and guardians of children afflicted with Down’s Syndrome reveal the pains of dealing with their wards’ special needs One day in 2002, Muyiwa Majekodunmi took his four children
Teacher’s Inhumanity To Pupil
A 10-year-old pupil is blinded by her teacher [caption id="attachment_8180" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="Blessing (left) before she lost her left eye and now."][/caption] Blessing Okaeben, a 10-year-old pupil of Okhoro Primary school, Benin, ...Extending Health Insurance Benefits To Rural Communities
ABUJA: Determined to extend health insurance benefits to rural and sub-urban areas of the country, which, hitherto, had no access to them, the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, has launched ...New Dawn For Kechi
Friends and classmates of Kechi Okwuchi, one of the two survivors of the Sosoliso airplane crash in 2005, organised a dinner to raise some funds for her surgeries [caption id="attachment_7854" align="aligncenter" ...How Mosquitoes Cause Elephantiasis
Contrary to the widespread assumption that elephantiasis, caused by mosquitoes, only affects the limbs, the disease also poses great danger to reproductive and other vital organs in the human body [caption ...The Restless Killer
New figures emanating from the World Health Organisation, WHO, show that cancer is the biggest killer of Nigerians Bimbo Jimoh once brimmed with life; and she hoped to make the best ...Why Cancer Is On The Rise In Nigeria
Professor Femi Williams is a world renowned pathologist and a leading authority on hepatitis. He has contributed extensively to the field of medicine with his research on liver diseases such ...Unending Strike,Unending Pains
The protracted strike by doctors under the employment of the Lagos State Government paralyses the state’s healthcare system and occasionally leads to avoidable deaths [caption id="attachment_4038" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="• Silence: The ...How They Coped With Breast Cancer
Breast cancer survivors explain that the disease is anything but a death sentence One day in 2005, Mrs. Sola Adeoti, then managing director of the defunct City Express Bank, took her ...Next Page »
Wole Soyinka: Next Phase Of Boko Haram Terrorism
To what will you attribute Boko Haram’s ...
Between Town And Gown
Professor Wole Soyinka combines intellectualism with positive ...
Al-Mustapha Sentenced To Death
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, head of the killing ...