Damian Barnes

I still don’t understand why they add maize to seafood platters

Bassam Tariq's ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’ follows a hitman struggling to balance his job with his faith & fatherhood. Starring Mahershala Ali, Giancarlo Esposito, John Cho and Tramell Tillman.

Some Med school MCQs test your understanding of English, more than your understanding of medicine .

20yrs ago, 29th March 2006 we experienced our first solar eclipse.

Do people know that teaching hospitals are not places you should just able to walk into. Teaching hospitals are meant majorly for referred cases and training specialist healthcare workers like nurses and resident doctors. After specialising in teaching hospital, a huge number of these specialist doctors and nurses are supposed to be working in your general hospitals, federal medical centers and state specialist with tons of medical officers working under them. Most emergencies and clinical conditions should actually be handled by specialists both medical and surgical at this secondary healthcare level. But walk into most general hospital in this country apart from lagos and what you'd meet is crickets. You'd be lucky to find one or two MOs shooting far above their pay grade. You'd see MOs doing ex-laps, CS, and ortho procedures just because if they don't, thousands will die. Walk into their emergency room and you'd be lucky to find functional resuscitation items and an oxygen cylinder. Yet, rather than these people to protest about their useless leaders. They'd rather point to the overworked doctor and nurses, they'd say we lack empathy, that we deserve our poor pay because of our lackadaisical attitude and that God will punish us if we don't attend to them on time. Godforsaken country.

Greatest memory from this era?

Me going to another city because I couldn't switch lanes

Don’t leave me in the room alone with your chocolate

The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, and the Deputy Minister of Communication, Mohammed Adams Sukparu, have been airlifted to Accra for further medical evaluation and treatment following a vehicle accident involving their convoy on the Bolgatanga–Tumu Road.

The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, and the Deputy Minister of Communication, Mohammed Adams Sukparu, have been airlifted to Accra for further medical evaluation and treatment following a vehicle accident involving their convoy on the Bolgatanga–Tumu Road.

I don’t understand why anyone would want this car if they don’t have a farm