You and Eye

Eye Care Everywhere: Preventing your jewel of inestimable value

IN my youth, one of my favourite songs was, “No more sorrow, no more pain.” I can’t remember the other…

7 years ago

Iwa Afi owo fa – From Apollo to gonorrhoea and to irreversible blindness

WHAT is “Afi owo fa”? It simply means “self-affliction.” To appreciate what self-affliction means, please, read the beautiful poem of…

7 years ago

Whether it’s crime or disease, prevention is cheaper and better than cure

I was bemused, sometimes ago, when I read about the lamentations of our first security officer, the Inspector – General…

7 years ago

Is driving at night more dangerous?

I was about five vehicles behind the heavy laden truck on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a road often described as the…

7 years ago

Lessons I have learnt: The door to ‘hope’ must never be shut in anyone’s face

Mr. Daniel, an 80-year-old man, travelled a long distance to see a doctor. He had been blind for over 10…

7 years ago

May I ask, ‘Are you blind?’

Several decades ago, I was walking briskly on the narrow road to my school on a Monday morning when something…

7 years ago

Eye makeup can make you blind

I don’t like gossips, but what can one do when you are in the midst of it all? I was…

7 years ago

The unnecessary war between structure and function

Today, I am taking a critical look at this little organ called the eye. It is undoubtedly one of the…

7 years ago

How do eyedrops work?

As I sat in the porch watching the birds jump from one tree to another, momentarily my eyes wandered to…

7 years ago

Revealed! The secret of Ajidewe

I had known Lola since her childhood days, but hadn’t been face to face with her for over 20 years.…

7 years ago

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