Everyone loves a good laugh and comedy shows can be a really good way to get off. Here’s a list of eleven completed comedy TV shows 1. FRIENDS This is probably the most popular of the lot. It follows the lives of six friends and how they navigate work and dating. There’s Ross, the annoying archaeologist; Chandler, the funny idiot, whom no one seems to understand what he does for a living; Monica, who’s probably the mother of the group;…
In an attempt to understand how UIMSAITES feel concerning the payment of their dues, the UIMSA Clinical Press tried to sample the opinions of UIMSAITES using the two categories below: ▪︎Why don’t you pay your dues at the appropriate time? ▪︎Why do you pay your dues at the appropriate time? We got the responses above. The highest number of responses coming from the 2k24 and 2k19 classes. We will summarily look through the opinions. A. Why don’t you pay your…
At the 2021 edition of the annual Connect conference the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta: a single company brand majorly designed to embrace all applications and technology previously owned by Facebook. This led to a frenzy of several memes, products, and companies adopting the metaverse theme as part of a new trend. Meta, short from for Metaverse, refers to an artificial universe or a virtual paradise where people can interact virtually as they do physically and…
The Patriarch is a poem written to commemorate Father’s Day. This poem gives perspective to the lives of most fathers as they try to meet up with society’s demand on them and navigate life with the weight of a family on their shoulders. It’s a tale of how most of them spend their youth fulfilling responsibilities, never having time to enjoy their own labours. Most times, these disguised superheroes are never appreciated, not seen, in part because they always try…
“We are pregnant.” Coined from the French term “couver,” meaning to hide, Couvade (/koo-vahd/) Syndrome refers to a recently acknowledged phenomenon in which men who are emotionally and psychologically attuned to their pregnant partners experience shared pregnancy symptoms such as morning sickness, bloating, reduced libido, change in urinary or bowel habits, nausea, and emotionally erratic behavior. It is also known as sympathetic pregnancy or pregnant dad syndrome. Typically, symptoms begin during the first trimester, subside during the second, peak during…
Can we meet you? I am Dr. Abimbola Ayodeji Abolarinwa, a UIMSA alumnus from the Class of 2004.I did my House job and NYSC in Lagos and Kaduna, respectively, and completed a Residency at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Surgery and Urology.In 2013, I became a certified Urologist and later a hospital consultant in LASUTH.Two years later, in 2016, I became a Senior Lecturer at Lagos State University and an Honourary Consultant. Why did you choose medicine as…
Ever planned to write on a certain topic and then moved in a similar yet different direction as you researched? No? Well, that’s what happened to me. The article you’re currently reading was meant to be a commentary on the state of competitive scrabble in Nigeria, inspired by the soon-to-be-held UIMSA Interclass Scrabble Competition and the triumph of Enyi Emmanuel, captain of the University of Ibadan Scrabble Team, at the 2022 Emmanuel Egbele National Scrabble Tournament. However, while…
Over the past few years, Marvel Studios has shown great interest in investments in TV shows as well as their movies, going to such lengths as having their parent company – Disney – create its own streaming platform to exclusively air these series for their viewers. It hasn’t been without positive returns either, as releases such as WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and Moon Knight were the talk of fans for weeks. Last week, a new hero by the…
First things first, Hip-Hop is not dead in the 234 (shoutout to everyone who said, “Rest in peace Uncle Phil” internally). I’m tired of the endless rants by those seeking to convince others as well as themselves that the culture is dead, and that Nigerian rap in particular has no value. For anyone insistent on revisiting that conversation, here’s a quick summary: Even at its peak, Hip-Hop was not the most dominant genre in Nigeria. Yes, it suffered a decline…
It’s 2:09 am on my birthday. I’m typing away at my laptop, hating. The grind doesn’t stop. What is photorealism and why is disparaging it so important to me? Well, to answer this question, I must first ask; what does art mean to you?. Perhaps, you view it as a means of expression or simply as a thing of beauty; that is all fine. After all, there is no universally accepted definition of art. But one thing most people agree…