Category: Saturday Magazine

Maduike Ezeibe, a professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Ezeibe told ISIOMA MADIKE in this interview that he is only waiting to be asked to submit his drug-candidate for confirmation of its efficacy on COVID-19. Excerpts…       Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recently announced that three COVID-19 remedy samples are undergoing evaluation. Is your drug one of them? I have not been contacted that I am one of…

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Nigeria’s imminent food crisis is inevitable unless urgent steps are taken to intervene. This is the summation of what YEKEEN AKINWALE found out in his report when he visited Kebbi State recently     Fatima Wakili is a farmer in Kebbi State. But, she is presently saddened as she watches her farm produce—watermelons rot away. Wakili told our reporter that it is more painful seeing herds of cattle encroach her farm, eating up her farm produce. Though there is high demand for farm produce, there is no way to get…

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It is gradually but steadily becoming a norm, the rate at which arbitrary executions are being perpetrated by personnel of the Nigerian Police Force, and other law enforcement officers saddled with the task of protecting the citizens. This, according to this report by YEKEEN AKINWALE, calls for urgent government attention     Steven, (28) and Chinonso, (26), both sons of late Eze Solomon, are heart broken. So is their mother, who lives in a village in Anambra State, and the rest of the family. Sunday, May 10, will forever remain…

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There have been panic in some neighbourhoods of Lagos and Ogun states lately following an invasion of suspected members of the notorious ‘One Million Boys,’ who storm and attack residents at random. ISIOMA MADIKE, in this report, examines the heinous activities of this dreaded robbery gang   They move in large numbers instilling fears in the minds of the citizenry. They don’t operate without giving notices to their targets of their dastardly intent. They are that bold, and everyone that had encountered them, dread them like a plague. They are…

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  Following the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the need to curtail the spread in the country, the federal and some state governments have initiated a number of palliative measures aimed at cushioning the effects of the attendant social dislocation on the populace. But, this report by PODO SUNDAY, has shown that all that glitters is not gold         As the second phase of the Federal Government directive on lockdown enters its final week, the economic realities bites harder with palliative supposedly meant for the populace allegedly…

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Sanitation, water and hygiene, among the forgotten foundations of health –Experts     Clean water, basic toilets and good hygiene practices are essential for the survival and development of children. Without these basic needs, the lives of millions of children are at risk. For children under five, water and sanitation-related diseases are one of the leading causes of death. ISIOMA MADIKE, who just returned from Bangai in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, tells a story of how primary school pupils have become change agents in saving lives from preventable…

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In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) may have been shrouded in secrecy because of the stigma associated with it while the procedure is quite demanding. But the flood of testimonies from couples appears to be rubbishing the shame connected with it as Nigerians are now realising that a successful IVF is not only a scientific miracle but a breakthrough in itself.  In this report, Isioma Madike, tells the story of those who became proud mothers through the assisted reproductive technology   On the outward, Mrs Elizabeth Nwaka, could pass for a well to…

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