A public health physician, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, popularly known as ‘Aproko Doctor’, has warned women against smoking shisha, noting that indulging in the act can make their breasts sag. Dr. Egemba also noted that those smoking shisha—a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporising and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium through a water basin, often glass-based, before inhalation—are equally more at risk of looking older than their...

Nigerian LGBTQ rights activist, Bisi Alimi is celebrating 18 years of living with HIV. Alimi, who gained international recognition when he became the first Nigerian to come out as gay on television, said he hid his HIV status for five years because of shame and stigma. “Eighteen years ago, at the national AIDS conference in Abuja and with nudging from friends, I walked into a testing booth for the first time,” his post on Facebook...