Tag: Bilikis Bakare
Child Marriage And The Day Of The African Child
By Bilikis Bakare While some people tag it adherence to age long religious tradition popular in a number of regions…
Now That The Rains Are Here
By Bilikis Bakare For generations, rainfall has been known to serve as showers of divine blessings as it had always…
Investing In The Defeat Of Malaria
By Bilikis Bakare Established in May 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, the decision making body…
Traditional Rulers And Nigerian Politics
By Bilikis Bakare In traditional African society, especially in pre-colonial period, traditional rulers were part of the natural environment of…
Chibok Girls And Social Decadence In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare It has been a year now that over 200 girls were abducted from their hostel at the…
Dealing With The Cancer Scourge
By Bilikis Bakare Cancer, also known as malignant neoplasm and the most feared word and disease in the world, is…
Internally Displaced Persons And 2015 Elections
By Bilikis Bakare Recently, the news of the grisly attacks by the insurgents on the people of Baga and the…
Surviving The Harmattan
By Bilikis Bakare The use of face-masks, hitherto confined to the hospitals and other medical facilities, have now become fashionable…
Health Sector Reform: A Promise Kept
By Bilikis Bakare At the inception of the Fashola administration in Lagos State, the Governor promised a Brighter Rewarding Future…
Reforming Prison System In Africa
By Bilikis Bakare The institution of prison is not indigenous to Africa. It is a holdover from colonial times, a…
Scoring Winning Goal Through Breastfeeding
By Bilikis Bakare Breastfeeding in practice and application is viewed as a human right issue by several international organisations including…
The Lagos Paternity And Maternity Leave Policy
By Bilikis Bakare Maternity leave, often called parental or family leave, is the time a mother or father takes time…
Detecting And Dealing With Pneumonia
By Bilikis Bakare Globally, pneumonia kills more than 1 million children younger than 5 years of age each year. This…
Otedola: Another Good Man Is Gone!
By Bilikis Bakare A particular dictionary simply defines philanthropy as charitable giving to human causes on a large scale. Philanthropy…
Eradicating Vesico Vaginal Fistula
By Bilikis Bakare Although child marriage is against the law in many countries including Nigeria as international treaties forbid the…
Bomb Blast, Abducted Girls And Insecurity In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare The spate of insecurity in the country is becoming very alarming. While we are yet to come…
Tackling Gender-Based Violence
By Bilikis Bakare According to the United Nations, gender-based violence, interchangeably used with Violence Against Women or at times domestic…
Getting Children Back To School
By Bilikis Bakare In the midst of current obscene display of opulence and grandeur in which some Nigerians own private…
Ensuring The Well-Being Of The Aged
By Bilikis Bakare Apart from death which everybody knows is inevitable and unstoppable, one other reality that comes to all…
Creating Awareness For Endometriosis
By Bilikis Bakare It is often common for girls and young women to experience pain during early hours of their…
Nigeria And The Challenge Of Mental Disorder
By Bilikis Bakare Medical experts in the country recently revealed that 64 million Nigerians suffer from one form of mental…
Tackling Adolescents’ Pregnancies
By Bilikis Bakare Population and environment have been inseparable since the beginning of time. They have parasitic and symbiotic relationship.…
Women And The Challenge Of Menopause
By Bilikis Bakare The onset of menstruation in a girl [menache] is a thing of joy for parents, especially the…
Addressing Youth Unemployment In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare Besides insecurity and corruption in high places, unemployment remains one of the most critical problems the country…
Hepatitis: The Silent Killer
By Bilikis Bakare To most Nigerians, HIV/AIDS is the most deadly disease in the world. But perhaps one of the…
Mentoring The Youths For National Development
By Bilikis Bakare The quest for economic prosperity and improved standard of living has led to myriads of domestic…
Caring For Orphans And Vulnerable Children
By Bilikis Bakare In traditional African society, the word orphan was alien because children who lost one or both parents…
Contending With The Cancer Scourge
By Bilikis Bakare Cancer, also known as malignant neoplasm and the most feared word and disease in the world, is…