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,...

Petrol Subsidy Is Emotive, Financing For Development Is Rational, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   That the sum of USD 800 million (about N386 billion) borrowed by the Federal Government through the World Bank would be used to cushion the initial potential negative effects of the forthcoming...

Buhari, Mele and Mungo Park, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   The word, "exploration," has put President Muhammadu Buhari, Mele Kolo Kyari, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and Mungo Park, the Scottish medical doctor, in a...

In Doha, Buhari Was The Voice For LDCs, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta   At the just-concluded 5th UN-inspired Conference of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar, President Muhammadu Buhari highlighted the negative effects of debt to development on poor countries and advocated for a...