Switzerland is about to become ground zero for the future of health policy in Africa. Next week, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group will convene in Geneva to discuss public health, medical innovation, and intellectual property. Many participants are expected to express their support for efforts to undermine patent protections for drugs. In doing so, however, these attendees ignore the more fundamental problem facing poor African nations— dilapidated healthcare infrastructure.

That top executives of the five biggest U.S. oil companies were recently pressed to explain the soaring fuel prices amid huge industry profits and why they weren't investing more to develop renewable energy source such as wind and solar. That the executives, peppered with questions from sceptical United States lawmakers, said they understood that high energy costs are hurting consumers, but deflected blame, arguing that their profits — $123 billion last year — were in line with other industries.

When God created Heaven and Earth, there was darkness over the surface of the earth, and God said, "Let there be light, and there was light". Light was called day, and darkness was called night. Water was separated from land, and from the sky. Land began to bring about fruits from trees, animals and other living things were created, and above all, God made man in His own image to manage the affairs of the universe.

Most major cities of our country have been bedevilled by this bane called solid waste, especially with the challenge posed in recent years by the pure water packaging palaver. I am most familiar with the city of Lagos and it will be most disappointing to you to discover that the economic heart of the giant of Africa is that dirty on the account of solid waste problem.

The light situation in Nigeria is really bad! In the last one month, Lagos has been in total power outage.  Indeed, reports have it that the whole of Nigeria is suffering the same fate. As usual, I do not claim to be knowledgeable in the science of power supply or any form of electrical engineering so; this is simply my view on the issue as it affects my little life! I sleep late every night- trying to fan myself and concurrently trying to ward of mosquitoes.