POISONOUS JUNK ! : Fast Food Exposes More Nigerians To Heart Disease ⦁ Govt Must Take On Food Giants, Outlaw Trans Fats – Experts ⦁ How Influx Of ‘Bad’ Cooking Oil Destroys Consumer Health, Economy ⦁ Nigerian Palm Oil As Better Alternative
As experts allege ‘grand conspiracy’ against the local palm oil industry, TAIWO ALIMI investigates how Nigeria became a dumping ground for unhealthy cooking oil, high in cholesterol killing thousands…
Friends Made Me Do It ⦁ Pandemic of Gang-Bang, Drug Dependence Seize Nigerian Teens ⦁ Their Frantic Battles with Peer Pressure ⦁ They are Getting Bolder, Slipping to Self-Destruct – Psychologists
For Bola Akinde, watching his daughter smoke weed was like peeping into a time capsule. The image spiralled rearwards, like dismal paste-ups to his younger self. “I experimented with…
The Boys Who Swapped Football For Bullets ⦁ How Boko Haram Bred A Generation Of Kids As Gunfighters ⦁ Trauma, Miseries Of Life As An Ex-Child Insurgent ⦁ A Great Deal Of Their Injuries Aren’t Physical – Psychiatrists
The thing about a gun: its easy for a child to get trapped in the sickle curve of its blind trigger. Yakubu, 10, is a testament. Since he learned to…
The Impact of CBN’s Naira-Dollar Policy on Forex Inflows, Reserves
Nigeria’s apex bank, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s policy initiatives are having salutary effect on much -needed foreign exchange inflows and reserves. Group Business Editor, Simeon Ebulu reports that…
SPECIAL REPORT: Jungle Justice on the Rise
Concerns over rising cases of mob action A wave of mob killings which has swept through the country in recent times has become a source of worry for well-meaning…
The Ibadan Correctional Centre Where Children Lack Food, Adequate Medical Care
The twin gate shielding the vast compound from the main road was locked; as it always is. After a brief knock, an elderly security man peeped through an opening…
IPODO …Where Drug Dealers Harvest Pleasure, Profit from Little Girls’ Bodies ▪Underage Sex, Crack Cocaine Available for a Token ▪Tracking Hard Drugs to Lagos from International Highways ▪Meet the Policeman who takes his 6-Yr-old Twin Sons to crack Joint
This is the dream of a Lagos crack dealer: to see the sun rise daily in its silvery splendour while the city stirs to hustle and thrill seekers pursue…