Pfizer to Pay $75 Million to Settle Trovan-Testing Suit
By Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 Pfizer signed a $75 million agreement Thursday with Nigerian authorities to settle criminal and civil charges that the pharmaceutical company illegally tested an experimental drug on children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic. Nigerian authorities say Pfizer’s test of the antibiotic Trovan killed 11 children…
Work Is the Medicine Of Poverty – Ise Ni Oguun Ise
Nursery Rhyme to live by: Isé ni òògùn ìsé – Work is the antidote to poverty We need to remember and teach our children these poems in this complacent and ‘welfare-program for the people of color’ land. Isé ni òògùn ìsé – work is the antidote/solution to poverty Múra sí isé re òréè mi –…
Dangote’s PhD Drivers
The news that six PhD holders applied for positions of truck drivers in one of Dangote Group’s companies is shocking because it is Nigeria. We are a people who make a big deal out of a PhD no matter how empty-headed the carrier might be and so we think the title infuses one with anything…