ECOWAS Restoration Task For Gowon, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The first visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the State House by former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon on February 21, 2024, marks a watershed in the previously unstated desire by the Tinubu...

Averting Food Riots in Nigeria, by Salisu Na’inna Dambatta   The decision by the Federal Government to release 102, 000 metric tons of grains from the national food reserves and import foodstuff symbolises a willingness to address the current spikes in the prices of food, energy...

How Buhari, Buni, Others Revived APC, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   There was a time the All Progressives Congress (APC) was in a serious crisis of self doubt, which almost tore it apart. That situation largely resulted from internal squabbles, a quarrelsome struggle for supremacy and an...

Nigeria's Quest for Liver Transplant, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   Laboratory tests conducted on patients in many teaching hospitals in the country indicate a widespread prevalence of Hepatitis B virus, a major cause of liver diseases. In an article co-authored by Nigerian healthcare workers in the Journal...

Nigeria Has Only two Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta A report in the Nigerian Journal of Cardiology in 2021 indicates that, heart or cardio vascular diseases involving the heart and blood vessels, particularly obesity-induced hypertension, are rampaging among the youth in the country. Cardiologists...

A Case For Medical Journalism, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   The practice of journalism has deep and firm roots in Nigeria: it is like a big tree with many branches. Some of the branches focused on sports, politics, finance and the economy, aviation, energy, entertainment, education, agriculture,...