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How online pharmaceutical products’ adverts endanger lives

How online pharmaceutical products’ adverts endanger lives

A social media user scrolling through Facebook encounters a sponsored post claiming to offer a “natural cure” for diabetes. On Instagram, another adve ...

A-Kurkura: A growing danger or cure?

A-Kurkura: A growing danger or cure?

A-kurkura, or simply kurkura as it is called in many parts of Northern Nigeria, is a popular herbal concoction widely used as traditional medicine. It ...

Corruption: We’re all to blame – Ad’Obe Obe

Corruption: We’re all to blame – Ad’Obe Obe

Mr Ad’Obe Obe studied engineering in Germany and philosophy in the United Kingdom (UK). He has lived in Kenya, Ghana, The Gambia and Tanzania, but spe ...

Safe schools’ initiative: Billions spent, children still unsafe

Safe schools’ initiative: Billions spent, children still unsafe

The abduction of school children in Oyo and Borno states between May 15 and 17 has once again exposed a painful truth Nigeria has been reluctant to co ...

Nigerian refineries: Waiting for Chinese touch

Nigerian refineries: Waiting for Chinese touch

It must be good news for those who still have faith in Nigeria’s embattled, state-owned petroleum refineries, courtesy of a new deal between the Niger ...