The story of Mrs. Ngozi Udebu, a teacher and housewife, who died recently at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Lagos, occupied a bit of space in Vanguard during the week. I do not have all the details, but available information points to the misnomers that characterize health care delivery in Nigeria.

The 26th United States President, Theodore Roosevelt recognised that the vast natural resources of the United States were not limitless so should be managed carefully for the betterment of his people. He acknowledged that American citizens are the most valuable natural resources. To him protection of human health was central and valid for the conservation movement which he developed for the sustainable use and protection of natural resources.

LAST week, having heard multiple complaints about the state of the country from several Nigerians, I expressed concerns about chronic fuel shortages, prolonged electricity cuts, widespread poverty and Mr President’s incessant globetrotting.

THE Holy Bible commands humanity “Thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s house, thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neigbour’s” (Exodus 20:17) .

I HAVE been thinking through President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat to “deal with (pipeline vandals) like Boko Haram”. That was the president’s “latest release” from foreign land, when he completed his one-week epic tour of China last week.