•Karolinska Institute neuroscience professor Abdel El Manira speaks in front of a screen displaying an illustration of the human brain, yesterday Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mys...
It starts innocently. A name refuses to come. You walk into a room and forget why you’re there. Your phone is in your hand, yet you spend several minutes looking for it. An old friend’s face is familiar, but the name just won’t come. “It’s old age,” someone says. For millions of people, especially as […]
•NAFDAC director-general, Mojisola Adeyeye, and alcohol in sachets The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has linked banditry in Nigeria to the indiscriminate consumption of alcohol. The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, stated th...
•Actress Halima Abubakar now (L) and before (R) Nollywood actress Halima Abubakar has once again gone public with appeal for financial assistance, saying she urgently needs money for surgery. In a now-trending video shared today, the actress was seen sitting on the floor as she begged Nigerians for support. “I’m tired of begging, I need [&hell...
•Bisola Badmus Nollywood Yoruba actress Bisola Badmus recently shared her struggle with “encephalopathy,” a brain disease, in an Instagram post. Encephalopathy is a dysfunction or disease affecting the brain and is characterised by a range of neurological symptoms that can include cognitive dysfunction, altered consciousness, and changes in be...

