PHARM H.O OLAYIWOLA
B.Pharm UI (MPSN)
Distinction in Social and Administrative Pharmacy,
BGS Clinical Pharmacy,
Most Outstanding Graduating B.Pharm student based on academic, student-based activities, and other extracurricular activities, including appearance and character.
Thank you for asking sincerely.
In Islam, fasting is not only about hunger and thirst. It is a spiritual journey of self-control, healing, and returning to Allah. So yes, intoxicants like weed are forbidden because the Prophet (s.a.w.) Muhammad taught that every intoxicant is harmful to the mind and soul.
But committing a sin does not automatically cancel a personโs fast. His fasting is still valid if he avoids food, drink, and intimacy during the day. However, the sin can reduce the reward. Islam focuses on growth, not perfection.
Ramadan is like a hospital for the heart. Some people come in already healthy. Others come in broken, addicted, or struggling. The goal is not to shame them but to help them heal step by step.
The fact that he still prays Taraweeh and still fasts means he has not given up on God. And in Islam, that is powerful. One day, that same Ramadan routine may be the reason he quits completely.
We believe Godโs mercy is always bigger than our mistakes. So instead of judging, Muslims are encouraged to advise with kindness and pray for each other because sometimes, the person struggling today becomes the strongest tomorrow.
That is the beauty of Ramadan.
In The Clinic...
...Doctor sends patient's relative away
DOCTOR: (Looks at the patient intently, wondering how to begin the conversation) Erm, Ma'am, do you know your status? I mean, your HIV status?
PATIENT: No. I never do am before. Na only ulcer i get.
DOCTOR: The HIV test we did, is positive. (He paused looking at the patient with pity and concern)
PATIENT: Wetin that one come mean? (shocked and fidgeting)
DOCTOR: (Hesitated) A positive test means you have HIV. The test was done twice using different strips... (She collapsed on the chair, crying and groaning)
PATIENT: Na only my husband I dey sleep with. Where I see HIV carry?
DOCTOR: Wey your husband dey?
PATIENT: Him dey always travel, and he too dey carry fine fine girls. Na this thing dey make us dey fight all the time. He too like girls...
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Many people are infected with STIs everyday by their partners. And STIs such as HIV is not curable. A cheating partner is a danger to your life and wellbeing. Infidelity should be a deal breaker for every sensible person.
Those of you gaslighting women to stay with their cheating husbands, what will you tell this one that have contracted this virus from her spouse. If she knew he would infect her, do you think she'd remain in that marriage?
Let's keep deceiving ourselves.
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They are still kids. what youโre doing is inhumane and an absolute waste of everyoneโs time, because you know very well that it doesnโt how many times you arrest or harass these children, theyโll be back on the streets in a few days.
This is a very complex and multi-layered problem that requires careful thinking, real empathy and deep concerted effort if weโre going to even stand a chance.
Of course I understand why thereโs a lot of anger and complaint about these children and the many vices they have committed. but itโs the only way they can get our attentionโA child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
This will become an even bigger crisis with time and itโs happening insidiously. itโs the very genesis of why we have such proliferation of Area boys and thugs In every corner of the streets of Lagos. We forget that no one becomes an area boy as an adult, itโs the children neglected overtime that grow up to become the thugs and area boys we complain bitterly about.
I have given the last 8 years of my life to working with these children and I have learnt many painful lessons in this time that continue to keep me up at night.
There are thousands of homeless/street kids wandering the streets of Lagos. If you drive regularly along Lekki -Epe expressway, you must have encountered them several times. They come up to your cars, beg for money, wash your windows, sometimes they become violent and break your side mirrors. Then they go back to their crevices to sleep, then resume hustling the next day. For you itโs a simple commute, for them, itโs the only life theyโll ever know.
Before we can understand how we got to this point and what we can do differently, we need to go back in time.
There are 3 major reasons why this problem has festered:
The first reason is 70% of these kids are not from Lagos, they are mostly from the neighboring states (Ogun, Ibadan, Kwara etc) and in some cases, from Northern and eastern Nigeria. In trying to escape extreme poverty, they are falsely promised that Lagos is the land flowing with milk and honey. So the ones that are brave enough to seek greener pasture become rebellious, abandon their families and travel with friends to Lagos with high hopes of succeeding and someday return home with great wealth. For many of them, thereโs no going back if this doesnโt happen. Itโs the same reason many Africans try to cross the Sahara desert into Europe.
The second reason is a failure of the public education system (primary/secondary schools). Most of the kids drop out of school because they struggle academically and are dismissed as Olodos (good for nothing) by their overworked and underpaid teachers. Infact, the public secondary system is the biggest contributor to this problem.
The third and most Important reason is the failure of the family unit(Broken homes). 80 percent of the children child you see neglected and abandoned on the streets is a direct result of broken homes. (This is actual data by the way) Maybe stop one day have a conversation with any of them, and youโll quickly realize that the stories are very similar. Itโs a failure of the family system, underpinned by poverty.
Some of them are orphans, some with single parents, some abused sexually even by their own fathers. The stories are deeply painful.
Through the culmination of these three things, the kids end up on the streets of Lagos. For them itโs an escape from hell and thereโs no going back home. Death is a kinder fate.
With time, it becomes clear that the promise of a better life in Lagos was a facade and the beginning of an even greater struggle. But this time without a roof over their headsโฆ
The streets become their new home and a life of violent survival begins. There are a couple of hotspots where they begin to convergeโOshodi Underbridge, Jakande, Marwa Bustop, Osale Eko dumpsite, Mushin, Ajah roundabout, Agege, Surulere Underbridge etc.
Another funny thing about results like this is that, when people see this, due to limited or incomplete information, they think that only the person with such result has a problem.
NOT TOTALLY TRUE!
YOU CAN SUFFER FROM ANOTHER PERSONโS ANTIBIOTIC ABUSE.
If person A abuse antibiotics, which is one of the ways to get a resistant strain. If person B has never even taken antibiotics before and somehow he contracts the resistant strain from person A. He is now infected with a resistant strain.
He will suffer the same thing that person A suffers. Even though he didnโt abuse antibiotics or anything.
In the clinical settings we take antibiotic resistance as permanent. Microbiologists can argue otherwise, saying bacteria can lose their resistance over time (which is true). Clinicians do not use that metric, we donโt have the time.
So that means, when healthcare professionals are saying โStop abusing antibiotics,โ please STOP, and ensure people around you stop also.
NB: I didnโt even talk about horizontal gene transfer, and several other ways and jargons that further complicate antibiotic misuse
@AdeagboRodiyyah . Sheโs a year 2 student of computer engineering at Unilag. She has been consistent with her 100days of Cybersecurity courses despite not having a personal laptop. This 200k will go a long way in getting her a laptop and making her cybersecurity journey easier๐
For context.
My Star formulation achieved an MiC of 3.125 against the >100mg/ml that the Market comparator did.
In simple terms, you will need more than 100mg of current market antifungal cream to achieve the fungi inhibition effect that only 3.125mg of my own formulation did.
So, every time you crave a sin, you just give in?
Where is your struggle against your nafs, desires, and shaytan?
Do you truly want guidance? Then fight your desires.
The path to guidance begins with striving against yourself, your temptations, and shaytan.
Allah says: โAnd those who strive for Our sakeโWe will surely guide them to Our ways.โ (Al-โAnkabut 29:69)
Let me give you this hack that will change your productivity game!
Create a google doc of โThings to do with my free timeโ.
I juggle a lot of things and I have a lot of ideas that evaporate really fast.
So, I have this list of things that I could do in some minutes that will keep my SM pages moving or my personal tasks moving.
So, instead of scrolling mindlessly on SM, I just go and check the list and identify something I could do right away that can indicate progress.
Every time I want my duas accepted, I call Him by these names,
Al-Fattah โopener of closed doors
As-Sami โ the One who listens,
Al-Mujib โ the One who responds
Al-Wahhab โ the One who gives.
And every single timeโฆ
He answers. He accepts my duas.
Alhmdulillah.
Tomorrow is Monday.
Fast if you are able to, if not earn reward by reminding others.
Remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers (Q51:55).
Baarakallahu Feekum.
In all of this marriage and divorce discourse, we women need to remember that when marriage fails, we have far more to lose.
So, protect yourself as much as you can.
If that man keeps talking about certain types of women he desires, and you know youโre not that kind of woman,