Photo credit: CBC Medical experts have reported that homeless individuals are increasingly turning to hospitals for help. CHCH News reports that it is adding to overcrowded emergency rooms and driving up healthcare costs. Doctors say hospital emergency departments are often used as warming centres by those experiencing homelessness. Hospitals are one of the few places where…
Photo credit: France 24 Israeli soldiers have stormed and set fire to the last hospital in northern Gaza. Al Jazeera reports that the Israeli military burned the Kamal Adwan hospital and caused significant destruction to the vast majority of its wards after a raid described as “barbaric” by local authorities. Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that Israel’s military has…
Photo credit: Success Magazine “Authenticity requires a certain measure of vulnerability, transparency, and integrity.” – Janet Louise Stephenson. 1. Genuine people don’t try to make people like them. They are who they are. They know that some people will like them and some won’t. And they are OK with that. It’s not as if they don’t…
Nigerian leaders are a clever lot, aren’t they? They knew citizens would be looking forward to goodies this season. At least, if they couldn’t have good governance throughout the year, they deserve a semblance of the dividends of democracy at the end of the year. But what did we have? Letters, letters, and letters! We…
The current week is probably one in which we curse the most. We are right too! As great Christians, we should! We should start with the things we really don’t want in our lives. That’s why our churches are filled to the brim on New Year’s Eve. It goes this way: For the chain smoker,…
Photo credit: Punch Newspaper May the soul of Alhaji Sheu Shagari rest in perfect peace! I believe he presided over Nigeria in the country’s heyday. Contesting elections against the intellectually sound Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ideologically sound Aminu Kano and the result-oriented Obafemi Awolowo wasn’t a mean feat. Even if the election was in a logjam,…
My own generator is bigger than yours! Oh yeah!! Lagos is a big city, sorry mega city. What about the unnecessary blaring of horns of vehicles in a traffic jam even when there’s no hope of easing up? Someone once said the hooters never had toys to play with in their childhood. The okada, as…
