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Using Harmful Substances to Cook and Process Food
By Olaolu Fawole The absorption and utilization of food by the body is fundamental to nutrition and is facilitated by digestion while food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food. Primary food processing is necessary to make most foods edible, as secondary food processing turns the ingredients into familiar foods, such as flour…
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Place of Pharmacy in Strengthening Healthcare
By Titilayo Kupoliyi Drugs are inestimable components in healthcare system worldwide; underscoring the vital role Pharmacy continues to play in keeping people fit or speeding up recovery. The ancient art of Pharmacy probably began when someone somewhere first thought of applying the juice from leaves to heal a wound. Greek legends written centuries ago spoke…
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Saving Economy Being Bled by Crude Oil Theft
By Oluwayemisi Owonikoko Nigeria is a known agrarian economy nation before the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity in a village called Oloibiri in present day Bayelsa state and in the Niger Delta in 1956.According to the Organization of Petroleum Export Countries (OPEC), Nigeria currently has the world’s tenth largest crude oil reserves and is the…
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A Glimpse into Osun Borehole Project
By Adenitan Akinola In a bid to make water available for it’s people, in January this year, the Osun state government announced the construction of a borehole per ward across the three hundred and thirty two wards in the state. The government followed up in July by purchasing electric generators of equal quantity to ensure…
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Sexual Harassment: Menace with Far-Reaching Consequences
By Funmi Adekoya Sexual harassment, an insidious blight on society, continues to cast a shadow over workplaces, educational institutions, and public spaces. It is a pervasive issue that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries, undermining individual well-being, professional growth, and societal progress. The implications of sexual harassment are profound and multi-faceted, demanding concerted efforts to eradicate…
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2023 Polls: Scrutinizing the Campaigns
Analysis with Dr Sunday Olawale As the 2023 campaigns hot up, parties have hit the campaign trail. Public affairs analyst, Dr Sunday Olawale in this interview takes a look at what the gladiators have been presenting before Nigerians. Politicians are out with their train to canvass votes, how best can the political climate be described?…
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2023 Elections: Litany of Vicious Jabs, Salvos
Nigeria’s democratic journey has been frequently marred by a slew of troubling events, including during the military era, dating back to the country’s independence in 1960. Losing candidates and their supporters frequently dispute election results, and this is true at all three levels of government in our country: local council, State and parliamentary, as well…
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Ensuring Safety of Children in Society
Child safety in the society remains a complex issue involving the interaction of multiple systems across the life course. It encompasses the prevention of all types of injury: physical, emotional and psychological as well as interventions to promote resilience to harm. It is a general belief that child safety is a call to action to…
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Aide’s Death : Tinubu Commiserates with Atiku
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed his condolence to his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, over the death of his close aide, Abdullahi Nyako. Nyako, who was the Waziri of Kojoli, Yelli District of Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State, died…
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Bestiality, Nigerian Youths, and the Society
Every society is governed by rules regulations, codes, and ethics regarding what to do and what not to do. For instance, most African cultures frown at relationships between animals and men known as bestiality as it is regarded as taboo. Apart from that, it is against the holy writs because both the Bible and Quran clearly condemn the act.…
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Examining Gaps in Youths’ Preoccupation with Social Media
Social media is a means of interaction between people regardless of race, age or gender. Various social sites that have found their way to the global space contain contents that are both helpful and inimical to the social behaviours of youths. As the International Day of Youths is observed across the world, focus on the negative…
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X-raying Ekiti 26 Years after Creation
Twenty-six years after the creation of Ekiti State, residents and stakeholders are not happy with the economic growth of the state. As the state prepares for another election to elect new leaders, concerned citizens want a change of tactics from the old order to move the state to an enviable height. Ekiti State was created…
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The Fray and Will of the Masses
The hats stumble, tumbling onto the arena with a heist of millions of naira in hand. Who needs a Nostradamus to know that 2023 looms on the horizon with queer enactments blazoning our political space? As in Sergio Leone’s 1966 Italian epic spaghetti starring Clint Eastwood as the Good, Lee Vancleef as Bad, and Eli…
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Finland, Sweden NATO Membership: Voices that Matter
After four years, the staccato of guns and booms of cannon ceased giving the world relief from a brutal war, World War 1 between 1914 and 1918, which left some 8.5 million soldiers dead as a result of battle wounds or disease. The world would be swarmed by another apocalypse twenty-one years later, World War…
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Ukraine: Between Donald Trump, Joe Biden
On January 20, 2021, baton changed hands in Washington, Trump gave way to Biden, after the horror of the January 6 Capital riot. Over a year after, Biden finds himself marshalling Europe to confront what the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, 30 nations body has tagged Putin war against Ukraine. And Biden has not spared…
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Power Supply, what is the way forward?
In this piece, Tayo Sanni writes on the way forward to the worsening electricity supply in Nigeria. Those who bought the power holding company of Nigeria, PHCN, and turned it into Electricity Distribution Companies owe Nigerians one vital explanation. They must tell the people what has happened with the discos since the ownership changed hand.…
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Ukraine Invasion: Ripples and Diplegia
*As the world grapples with the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with trepidation and the need to avoid the crisis escalating into a third World War, Simeon Ugbodovon looks at core issue behind the booming canons.* February 25 at 5:49 pm, the world found itself in a new face of conflict, Russian President, Vladimir…
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Suicide! Is it the Answer?
In this peice, Anthonia Akanji writes on ways of discouraging suicide in the society. A quote by an anonymous author says “suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better” Suicide is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die over various issues.…
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Agbalumo: Health Benefits Of African Star Apple
By Titilayo Kupoliyi It’s the season of African Star Apple, known as Agbalumo in Yoruba,Udara in Igbo, Agwaluma in Hausa and botanically called Chrysophyllum albidum. African Star Apple is a tropical plant and abundant in Nigeria. Agbalumo is a great fruit that gives you a star shape when you cut it open like.This is the…
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Hijab For Policewomen: Nigeria Has Lost Focus – Traditional Worshippers
The Traditional Worshippers Association of Nigeria, Oyo State Branch has condemned the approval of use of hijab and other adornments for policewomen in Nigeria, saying the government has lost focus on its priority on development. The body said this in a statement made available to reporters in Ibadan on Monday and signed by its Chairman,…
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Health Benefits of Monkey Kola
Monkey kola is a popular name for this edible wild relatives of West African kolanut, including Cola lateritia K. Schum, Cola pachycarpa K. Schum, and Cola lepidota K. Schum. These are indigenous tropical fruit species that thrive in the humid woods of West and Central Africa. In Yoruba, monkey kola is referred to as Obi…
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Strange Trees around the World
Have you ever given a thought to these silent natural wonders around you standing tall in diverse shapes and sizes? I am talking about trees — yes, trees are natural wonders and a gift to this world and to the entire humanity. They are a vital source of survival of all the living things on…
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Need To Encourage Nigerian Inventors
In the later part of the eighteenth century to four decades into the nineteenth century, precisely between 1760s and 1840, the industrial revolution began in Britain. Today, western countries top the list of the developed world. Asia is not left behind, as China, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have emerged as strong manufacturing hubs. African…
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Straight Talk: Sports Development in Nigeria, How Far?
Super Eagles of Nigeria is currently making the country proud at the ongoing AFCON 2021 holding in Cameroon. The team has qualified for the knockout stages of the 2021 AFCON tournament. For analysis on the tournament and efforts at developing sports in Nigeria, tune in to Straight Talk on Premier FM 93.5, Ibadan on Monday…
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Meet Cities, Events that Celebrate Man’s Primal Nature
During Stone Age era, people use to roam around naked and it was considered normal. However, when the society developed, people started covering themselves with clothes and we adapted to a different lifestyle. However, there are places and events where walking naked is still accepted, such event is the bike ride which takes place every…
