Nigeria’s Health Pandemic

 The media and film industries have misled our society into self-destruction. Vast medical disability, even though we have drugs for everything today, is making our society sicker. For example, an average youth in Nigeria specifically is affected by stomach ulcers, mass infections of diseases, and internal malfunctions of organs. The only remedy I hear every day is the same content from a different company.

This business is slowly killing our people. We cannot be in economic and political stagnation and still be in this unhealthful dilemma. We need to start asking questions about our environment: the things we consume (food, water), the things we contain (health is wealth), and the reasons so many people die with no valid explanation on why and how.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not questioning the inevitability of death but rather the potency of our means of survival as humans, tribes, and ethnicities under the same circumstances. Malnutrition and inorganic majors will only bring organic dysfunction. Like Dr. Sabi would say, the black race is in big debt. 

Tijani Lawal, Lokoja, Kogi State