Christopher Bassey and Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writers) At exactly 9:12 p.m on a humid Lagos night, Rukayat (not real name) sat cross-legged on her bed, listening to the sound of raindrops hitting the roof and trickling down her windowpane. Her thumb hovered over the screen of her phone. She had been replaying the same thought […]
Mahdi Garba and Chinwendu Tabitha Iroegbu (Lead writers) For more than six years, Olufunke Bamidele and her family have used the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre, in Lugbe, a community in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). She recalls a time when access to services at the facility depended entirely on the national electricity grid. […]
Pregnant women are increasingly relying on traditional birth attendants and home births in Gauraka town of Niger State, due to an overstretched clinic. For many, the danger begins long before labour even starts. “Our only options are traditional birth attendants or auxiliary nurses who run medicine shops,” Sai’edi Sule, a resident explained. “At the clinic, […]
