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As a third world country that is fast sliding back to stone age, Nigeria is yet to get rid of mosquitoes. In fact I will not be surprized if someone theorizes that all the mosquitoes of the world are slowly but surely migrating to Nigeria. This is judging by such things as the rising number of mosquitoes in our houses and rooms, the rising large number of people reporting to hospitals and clinics with malaria, and the rising number of people who actually die from the disease. Mosquitoes in our country are just so many and so brazen that fleeting your room daily does not protect you from a bite or two in the wee hours of the morning. Thats the time when mosquitoes regain their energies and go into action with vengeance. And this leads me to the question of what to do in order to make your room mosquito-free?
I asked a few friends what they do to protect themselves from mosquitoes and the answers I got would shock officials of the World Health Organisation (WHO). By the way this is the only organisation that seem to bother about the mosquito scourge in Nigeria. This is because federal, state and local governments do not as a matter of policy bother and do not talk about malaria at all. Their budgets on health does not have any Kobo for checking the insects. here is are the responses:

More than sixty percent said they do not bother and do not buy anything to check mosquitoes in their bedrooms. They cited the cost of mosquito repellents as one reason.
Others said they use the cheap mosquito coils from China but admitted that they do not use them it on a daily basis.
No wonder malaria is on the increase.
Above is the picture of a pack of cheap mosquito coils that are imported from China. They have now saturated our markets and millions of Nigerians now inhale the smoke for eight hours during their sleep. This pack has no NAFDAC or FDA certification or number thereby suggesting there was no test conducted to ascertain its effect on human health.