A GRID iron is an intentional malapropism. In medicine, one gridiron is the type of incisionused in appendectomy, the removal of an inflamed appendix, a vestige of the gut with little or no use but a litany of woes. Here, alternating crisscrossing cuts are employed as progress is made into the abdominal cavity.

PARENTS and guardians with their children and wards in both public and private primary and secondary schools – which were earlier scheduled to reopen by the third week of September after a long holiday that began late July – were directed by the Federal Government to adhere to a new date following the sudden outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country.

THE Ebola virus disease came into this country and displayed its deadli-ness; thanks in part to so many coincidences, the virus is being successfully contained – the first hospital of call of the first Ebola victim; the professionalism of the first doctor who attended to him, late Dr. Stella Adadevoh and the state of first visit, that is Lagos state.

IF there is one northern governor that can be said to have been people-oriented and who has left his people in a situation better than he met them, that governor must be Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa State. Before Lamido stepped in the saddle in 2011, Jigawa State was reeling from the throes of prebandal […]

ONE of my recent articles, “The problem with the striking doctors”, elicited a number of responses from my readers. Some of them called me on the phone, some sent text messages and others sent e-mails.