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Tue Jan 19 2021
Powdered cashew bark in warm water will cure hypotension, and cashew leaf tea will cure diabetes, claims a message recently posted on Facebook in Nigeria.
“Get bark of cashew, wash and grind it into powder. Mix with water, probably warm water and drink. Very, very effective for hypotensive,” it reads.
“Cashew leaf and bark for diabetes. Make tea infusion with leaf and bark then drink. STAY SAFE. STAY HEALTHY.
But do these remedies really cure the two health conditions? We checked.
Hypotensive? Get medical help fast
Hypotension is when the blood pressure is too low, usually below 90/60 mmHg.
Protecting universities from COVID-19
Published 17 January 2021
AS fresh agitation builds up against the resumption of universities, the Nigerian academic community is on edge again. Essentially, the staff unions of the universities have firmly expressed their opposition to the January 18 reopening date of the institutions set by the Federal Government. Citing the second wave of the coronavirus plague and implementation of the payroll system, the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions insist that resumption is not feasible now. After the months-long lockdown, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the state governments, university authorities and the unions should collaborate on the safe reopening of the institutions.
ART-ICLES
Here is the first rule before Omooba Yemisi Shyllon’s stately presence: the interviewer, poised with his pen and notebook, must have his wits about him. Otherwise, chances are that he risked losing the thread of this conversation. For it is the portly 68-year-old’s stock in trade to be both eclectic and encyclopaedic in his discussion of any subject matter. True, his renown as Nigeria’s – if not Africa’s – leading art patron may be more often talked about in the media. Still, his polymathic credentials – burnished by his membership of the Nigerian Bar Association as well as his being a fellow of such professional bodies as the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Institute of Directors- Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Management, Chartered Institute of Stock Brokers, Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Marketing of the UK – tend to assert themselves in the course of a prolonged conversation.
Some Die, Longing For A Hand To Hold, By Wole Olaoye 6 min read
Experts cite the extinction of the traditional family structure, the desperation to achieve success at all costs, lack of job security, shortage of psychiatrists and non-passage of the Mental Health Bill, among other factors, as cogs in the wheel of the fight against depression and eventual suicide in Nigeria.
“I’ve battled with depression for seven years, and now that battle is over. I couldn’t continue to live the way I did, and make the same bad choices all over again. The noise got too loud, but now the noise can stop.