Would You Like To Be Healthy? Doctor’s Note
By Oyedeji Aderemi He was just 28 and became unemployed when his sight started failing him, his means of livelihood was cut off and his ability to seek medical help[…]
The Revenge of Oscar Wilde – Ebenezer Obadare
On Wednesday February 5, British MPs voted on the question of whether or not to legalize same sex marriage. After a mostly civil five-hour debate, the legislation, proposed by Culture[…]
Rethinking Health Care Delivery Part 2
By Hezekiah Shobiye In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that the Nigerian health care system is unresponsive to both the medical and non-medical needs of its patients; the Nigerian[…]
Making Sense of the CBN’s New Capital Adequacy Requirements
Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) toughened its regulatory regime. Its review of risk weights on certain exposures in the computation of capital adequacy essentially did four main[…]
Editorial #15: Of Limits and Expectations
The writer (and current winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature) Chika Unigwe was at a Secondary School in Lagos about a week ago, on invitation, to talk to literature students[…]
Love Is Madness & Something Like That
by Emmanuel Iduma This didn’t happen every day. A man and a woman were sitting by themselves beside a gutter.Her head was resting on his shoulders; his arm drew her close[…]
Tax Collectors
By Obinna Udenwe Today is not a market day, so we are not packing brooms and beads into baskets to be taken to the market. I am just sitting[…]
Three Poems
By Richard Ali Hunger Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve[…]