Their Nigeria.....
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Today is October 1. Our country is 49. It would be easy for us to do a post about how bad things…
David Morley - a career of service that started in Nigeria
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It was in 2007, at an event at the Institute for Global Health at the UCL, I sat on a table at the…
Have you heard about "Vision 2020"?
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If not please listen to our friends at NTA Network news every night! This is one of the illusions (some say delusions)…
Where is your NAFDAC number?
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You might not have heard a lot about him, but NAFDAC actually does have a “new” Director General, Dr Paul Orhii. A Russian trained…
The Obama speech on health care reform and our country
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Last week was particularly interesting. My facebook updates were on-fire again with ooops and aaahhs for another great Obama speech. …yes it…
Doping, MRI and our sports
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(apologies for typos in previous post…pressed send too early!) I love sports…even if I am not great at any myself. I love…
Contradictions of Abuja III
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In 2008 …the erstwhile Minister of our Federal Capital announced with great fanfare that smoking was banned in Abuja! Thisday declared that…
The contradictions of Abuja II
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Its interesting driving around Abuja….our beloved capital city. You see refuse disposal trucks with smartly dressed young men emptying the bins….impressive. Then…
CORRECTION!: The contradictions of Abuja
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In our last post “The contradictions of Abuja” there were three important points. 1. That our government that has shown that building…
The contradictions of Abuja
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There is a huge project going on in Abuja at the moment. The beatiful trees that lined both sides of the motorway…
Pfizer and Kano - Heads or Tail...the people loose
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Reuters – KANO, Nigeria, July 27 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Kano state and drugmaker Pfizer Inc have reached a final court settlement in…
The new "Mega hospitals" and how they are going to save your life...maybe
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Health in the Nigerian polity is often discussed in terms of “hospitals built“…. While all these are important to some extent…no building…
A sign of things to come?
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You will might have read from the new and rich newspaper in Nigeria 123Next of the first coronary angioplasty and stenting procedure…
Hajia Turai's £40M Cancer Centre in Abuja
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Our country is an interesting place. In a single afternoon in Abuja N7 Billion (£28 million) was raised in a single day…