What We Are Reading: Happy Birthday HIV and AIDS!
It will soon (on 5 June) be the birthday of HIV and AIDS. It is now 30 years since they arrived on the health horizon to change our world forever.[…]
Author: Seye Abimbola
General · Health · Nigeria@50
Nigeria at 50: Academic Medicine
by Seye Abimbola To have a medical school is an expensive, audacious undertaking anywhere in the world. From very humble beginning at the Yaba Medical School which produced 62 doctors[…]
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Culture and Society · Health · World Affairs
What We Are Reading: What’s Good For The Goose…
Why does female circumcision/genital cutting/mutilation get so much attention and media while nobody seems to care that possibly the most sensitive part of the penis, the foreskin, in spite of[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
On Citizenship in Nigeria
Simon Adebola Every nation has laws by which it abides. The constitution is the basis for the legal systems that exist in each country. Each country’s constitution is equally binding[…]
Culture and Society · General · Health · Technology · World Affairs
Nigerians Talking Science – An IM Conversation
I thought I’d have you listen in on this IM conversation I had with a friend from medical school, Simon Adebola, about science, science illiteracy and biomedical science in Nigeria/Africa.[…]
Culture and Society · Politics · World Affairs
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Why are we surprised?
It is itself a surprise to me that we are responding to the issue of the alleged Nigerian suicide bomber/terrorist if it was totally unpredictable. We want to condemn it,[…]
Culture and Society · General · World Affairs
Alternative Science, Junk Science
I still remember the shock when I realised that the practice of homeopathy was funded within the National Health Service (NHS) in England. I was taking a lunchtime stroll when[…]
Culture and Society · General · World Affairs
Thinking about Evolution (2)
Here is a response from my personal blog to Thinking about Evolution, written by Femi Owagbemi, a medical doctor in Nigeria. I couldn’t resist posting it here. This and other[…]
Culture and Society · General · World Affairs
Thinking about Evolution
There is at least one sense in which Nigeria and the US are very similar: having a remarkably high proportion of religious people – or as the present fad expression[…]
David Morley (1923-2009) and WGH Ilesha
There are many reasons for me to blog about David Morley (1923-2009), who perhaps more than any other western scientist has done more towards the development of paediatrics and child[…]