I want to believe Allah (SWT) brought me back to read my scorecard. He does that whenever He wants. All…
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I had earlier spoken about intubation. It is a medical procedure involving the insertion of a flexible plastic tube into…
I was in Makkah on the third of December last year for Umrah and to seek healthcare. And perhaps to…
This article was published on July 26, 2021, after the Eid-ul-Adha or Eid-ul-Kabir of that year. It remains relevant and…
Some time ago, I had an oblique conversation with Governor Mai Mala Buni about my health condition, and something related…
Our friendship, forged in the crucible of the School of Basic Studies of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, was a…
The publisher of Neptune Prime newspapers, Dr Hassan Gimba, anipr, has announced plans to commission three major projects, including a…
We went to the waiting area of the hospital and waited to be called in to see her. She soon returned, holding a cup of her drink. She asked me certain questions and, after taking my vitals, sent me to go for a Spirometry Flow-Volume Test, known as Lung Function Test (LFT).
With a root in palliatus, a Latin word, palliative is anything meant to palliate, i.e., relieve, decrease, ease, assuage, soothe, help, etc., a situation. That situation could be a disease, dispute, deprivation or anything that discomfits. While hospitals palliate diseases by administering medicinal palliatives, in our case, the word has taken a political meaning. Politicians now dole out whatever they feel the people want as a palliative, in most cases against poverty.
Government, and here I mean the federal and state governments, must always be truthful and fair to the citizens. They must also make their agencies work. The government must let government function. In almost all cases, it is the government that makes government fail because the actors do everything from a prism of personal gain. Nothing about service anymore. Then there is the Nigerian syndrome of “Do you know who I am?” Gathering clouds.