Three vaccines have been licensed for use in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic – Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer. Nigeria is currently expecting 100,000 doses of the
Author: Muhammad Shakir Balogun
Doctor, microbiologist, epidemiologist, bibliophile, hodophile

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
In this historical novel that came out in 2020, Brit Bennet kneads the dough of the well-used ‘passing’ plot afresh to spin an intriguing new

Citation: a viewer’s opinion of the movie
Because of the noise that people were making on Facebook and the general hype all over the place I finally sat down to watch the

On the Nobel Prize for Physics, Cosmology, and Popular Science Writing
I’ve been itching to comment on this matter since this award was announced but work has been such a pesky distraction. What came to my

A Reader’s Impression of The Mechanics of Yenagoa by Michael Afenfia (2020)
Reading this novel as I did over the better part of two days during the Eid break felt like binging on accumulated episodes of a

COVID-19 Diary: June 22
COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to soar. During the weekend, the NCDC DG, WHO Officer-in-Charge, and the NCDC Director of Surveillance were in Lagos to