January 19, 2020. There was a motorcade ahead of us preventing us from overtaking. One of the vehicles was a police pick-up while the others
Author: Muhammad Shakir Balogun
Doctor, microbiologist, epidemiologist, bibliophile, hodophile
To Atlanta again, via Istanbul
I looked at my boarding pass and saw the words ‘saat’ and ‘tarihi’, Arabic words meaning time and date respectively, and chuckled as I always
Universal Health Coverage – the right thing, the smart thing
One cold evening in 2005 I was with my cousin in Grays, a quiet town in Essex County some 35 km east of London. Glued
From compassion and charity to health economics
We learnt more than clinical medicine at the bedside. We also learnt that poverty and ignorance could make people deadly sick. We learnt that illness
Nigeria at 59: we need to rekindle the dwindling patriotism
Individually and collectively, we need to build a Nigeria that our children can be proud of. Some have to start from a point of patriotism and optimism and work to give the rest something to be patriotic and optimistic about.
Walk the Talk and Keep Abuja Clean
We were supposed to gather at the Millennium Park at 7:00 am for the second edition of the Abuja Walk the Talk: The Health for
