Category: Opinion

The Use of Sex Enhancement Products in the North: A Call to Address Underlying Causes, By Dr Zainab Suleiman

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Many men and women in the North may face severe health challenges due to the use of kayamata and kayamaza concoctions. As doctors, we anticipate seeing more cases at the clinic .   When a society promotes a practice as a way of life, it becomes part of their culture. However, some tribes in other regions have successfully managed their homes without such practices.   The widespread use of kayamata and kayamaza in the North is alarming, with many prioritizing these products over good nutrition and medicine. These products can…

Disease, ignorance, and religious extremism can be deadly, especially in Nigeria and Africa,By Dr Zainab Suleiman

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I had a patient who wore a niqab to the labor ward – I’ve seen a lot in Nigeria! The next day after delivery, she informed us she was fasting. This is just a woman who had just given birth. Even God didn’t intend for religion to be that difficult; some people just choose to practice it that way. By noon, she went into hypoglycemic shock, her electrolyte levels were severely imbalanced, and we had to resuscitate her.   Another encounter was with a patient during Ramadan who, after I…

The Silent Epidemic: Anal Sex, Homosexuality, and the Erosion of Moral Values in Northern Nigeria, By Dr. Zainab Suleiman

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Anal sex has become a lucrative practice in some northern states. This practice is widespread and has become normalized. Others request others to join on a daily basis. They even have groups they belong to, where they make recommendations to men interested in having sex with a female through the anus for financial gain. Some men accustomed to anal sex, including those who practice homosexuality, find it easy to engage in anal sex with women for money. Such men sponsor the female’s lifestyle, spoil them with money, take them on…

Monday Lines For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria By Lasisi Olagunju

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“As an Offa citizen, I am made to look like an inferior being. While competing for anything in the North, I would be told that I am a Yoruba man. If there is something to compete for in the South-West, I would be reminded that I am a northerner. Permanently, I am an inferior citizen until this lopsided, skewed, warped national structure is re-configured.”   Chief J. S. Olawoyin was the leader of the opposition in the Northern Nigerian House of Assembly from 1956 to 1961. On Wednesday, 5 February,…

Happy Wedding Anniversary Your Excellencies, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris CON, former Kogi Governor, and Hajiya Aisha Ibrahim Idris. BY ABUBAKAR YUSUF

Abubakar Yusuf

Just like yesterday, eight years down the line after the wedding ceremony between His Excellency, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris CON, Jakadan Sokoto ,former Governor of Kogi state and Hajiya Aisha Ibrahim Idris, the darling wife and heartrob, Giwan Matan Lokoja and Omiakele Ogohi onu Anyigba.   Precisely April, 14th , 2007, the holy solemnization, marriage and joining was carried out with the blessings of Almighty God and His wisdom.   The marriage with the grace of Almighty God was blessed with many success story including two twins, two in the first…

General Buhari as an Enigma, by Hassan Gimba

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On Friday last week, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former House of Representatives Speaker and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i, former Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam, former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa, and former Governor of Kaduna State Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, alongside other political heavyweights, paid a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Kaduna. It was ostensibly a social visit, and they were seen exchanging banter, having a tete-a-tete, and enjoying lunch—all for the photo ops—before going into a…

“Tell Your Papa” as the spirit of Rwanda’s Simon Bikindi By Festus Adedayo

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In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United States’ University of East Anglia, received a call from Wilfred Ngunjiri Nderitu, Chairman of the Kenyan International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Nderitu wanted Street to be an expert witness in a trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Simon Bikindi, a Rwandan musician, accused of inciting genocide via his songs during the 1994 Hutu-Tutsi war, was on trial. Bikindi, a Hutu from Gisenyi, same region where assassinated Rwandan…

Olunloyo: Goodnight, Voltaire By Festus Adedayo

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At his ancient ‘imperial’ home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher, Voltaire, who had trapped inside a single skull the brains of generations”.   When I met Victor Omololu Sowemimo Olunloyo (VOS) for the first time in 1995, the facade of scales that decorated my eyes about him began to drop. If you followed the 1983 Nigerian elections, especially in the old Oyo State, you couldn’t like VOS. Gradually, on meeting him visiting the newsroom of the Nigerian…

Wike’s Giant Strides in Health Sector in FCT, BY ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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Having met a dilapidated, unfunded and uncompleted structures harboring general hospitals in some area councils of Gwagwalada , Kuje, Bwari, AMAC, Kwali and Abaji and the desire for urgent rehabilitation and reconstruction of some departments of the hospitals , the Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike commenced the process through mass action in the FCT general hospitals, clinics and Primary Health Care Centers.   This included reconstruction and upgrade as well as rehabilitation of the General Hospitals among others to meeting the desire and needs of FCT residents in…

Nigeria and the part of our past (2) By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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Nigeria’s current challenges are products of a complex interplay of historical, economic and social factors, including a flawed foundation, poor governance and successive elites’ inability to improve the country’s infrastructure and institutions. This foundational weakness has hindered national progress, resulting in unimpressive development indices. Those in power seem content with the status quo, benefiting from it recklessly, while Nigeria’s governance appears to cater only to about 3% of its population, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves or simply “go and die”. To understand the roots of these challenges,…