As frontline workers battle to subdue this virus, clinical information is simultaneously collected from the patients who recover or die. Furthermore, autopsy reports from pathologists in Italy, have been quite revealing. All these data serve to illuminate our pathways towards the search for vaccines and treatments. They also inform our public health policies and guidelines.
More than a Miracle is written in the first person – a narration by Chinwe Ezeanya – whose son, Dike was born with a congenital liver disease which was misdiagnosed at birth.
Born on 7th January 2008, Dike always looked jaundiced, however when he was about 3 months old, a trusted consultant paediatrician discovered the source of his illness and he was ultimately referred to a hospital in India for proper diagnosis and cure. They went to India, and the solution was a liver transplant.
I got to know him as Achalla, whether this was his his real name, I cannot recall but what ever real names he may have had, the name Achalla, must have eclipsed the real names of our then School Captain (just as the name, Gadaffi eclipsed the real names of our mate and brother, Enwezor, Flavian Obidigbo up till this day).
I watched two men argue over politics the other day, and one of them got really ugly, veered off the subject matter and attacked the personality of the other person.
Triangles have 3 sides. Squares are 4-sided. So, have you wondered why we say 3 square meals? The phrase may have originated from the period when the Royal Navy’s meals …
It was a Sunday afternoon in the year 1992. On my way back from church, I had stopped at a secondary school classmate’s house to deliver a message. She wasn’t home. Her brother, King, who was also my classmate, was home. He told me they were not back from church. After exchanging some pleasantries, I made to leave. He held me by the hand and pulled me back with, ‘Where you think say you dey go?’
At almost ninety years old, this tall slim, enigmatic man is still very busy. His book, DARE TO LIVE MY PASSION; Memoirs of an authentic Railway Man, will be launched on the 18th of July in Lagos. At an age when most men would have retired and gone to bed, Pa Nath (as he is fondly called) is blossoming, his fertile mind and incredible writing skills still getting better. The RADICAL REBEL (as he refers to himself) has authored several books – all of them after retirement
The Book “Everyday Greatness” by Steven Covey captivated me on the first day of September 2013 when I first set my eyes on it. Reading it enabled me re-define my life’s call.
July 5, 1643 : First recorded tornado in USA in the Essex County, Massachusetts. July 5, 1687 : Sir Isaac Newton published Principia which contained his Laws of Motion and …
