ChiemezieMadu
Personal views on society, culture, politics, policy, church, religion and people
PDP’s unending tussle: why is Ayu being scapegoated?
The Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) has found itself in an unending imbroglio 5 months to the general elections. To the unsuspecting many, the crux of the tussle may seem to be a quest for fairness and justice. But a more circumspect analysis shows that the charade is...
Sickle cell anemia: man’s inhumanity to man
One of my most heart-rending moments in my career as a doctor is seeing sickle cell patients going through a painful crisis. Perhaps the only thing more traumatizing is when patients come to the end of their lives. I think it is plainly wicked and extremely selfish,...
The unending tussle between ASUU and FG
Today (July 21, 2022) is day 157 of the ASUU strike. I thought it was a record until I was told ASUU completed a 9-month uninterrupted strike in 2020, under the same President Buhari (a year after his re-election for that matter). President Muhammadu Buhari I spoke...
Afrobeats: the backstory. A movie review.
I recently stumbled onto the documentary/docu-series, Afrobeats: the backstory, on a lazy evening when I was rummaging through Netflix for anything interesting to watch. The title caught my attention and I decided to give it a try. The first kudos to the movie...
Community is everything: lessons from the Harvard Study of Adult Development
I listened to a TEDX talk by Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of Psychiatry at Harvard medical school, where he discussed the findings of what is now known as the world's longest study on happiness - the Harvard Study...
On Peter Obi, Kwankwaso and the proposed LP-NNPP merger
After listening to key stakeholders in both the Labor Party (LP) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) speak on the proposed merger between both political parties, I can only conclude that the merger will not come to fruition. Particularly, after listening to the...
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