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…