FOR give my interest in this field. I am the son of a professor of Medical Microbiology so it must be in my genes. So aside from petroleum engineering, project management and information technology where I can mix it with the best, politics and medicine with a tilt towards microbiology also hold a place in my heart.
SO Laura Wine died. So too did Shaw, after an 11-day illness. This was early 1969. But the scenario was just starting to unfurl. These were merely the opening sequences in a medical drama, whose spiralling plot spun a web of desperation – a web that would soon span the Atlantic and ensnare both the Nigerian and U.S. governments. This is what my research revealed:
THERE is no “good” time for a disease epidemic—certainly not a deadly hemorrhagic fever, such as Lassa. But the worst possible period is now, when we are so deeply mired in a social crisis.
In 1978 the Nigerian Government decided to review the original national anthem drafted into our psyche by departing British expatriates in 1960. As a result of the review a “Nigerian” version emerged. It was the product of an exhaustive nationwide competition which produced 5 winning entries that were ultimately amalgamated into 1, a bit like the Nigerian story.
HAPPILY, “Unemployment” was a major theme in President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Budget address, which he recently delivered to a Joint Session of both houses of the National Assembly.
NATURAL gas is in the news again—ushered in on a new wave-crest of conflict and controversy, arising from the Federal Government’s extension of the deadline for extracting firms to end gas flaring to December, 2013.
