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Turning Livestock Waste into Fertiliser: Can a Kaduna Enterprise Cut Farm Costs and Support Better Nutrition?

Jul 20, 2026
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‘Where Does My Donated Blood Go?’ Tracing the Life-Saving Journey from Donor to Patient

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NIGERIA HEALTH WATCH LAUNCHES THE NIGERIA HEALTH WATCHERS NETWORK

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A Solar Power Project is Keeping Primary Healthcare Centres Running in Abuja

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 5, 2025

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. […]

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A Simple Two-Block Toilet Is Transforming Sanitation in a Kogi Community

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 20, 2025

Ozumi Abdul (Lead writer) For Halima Shuaibu, a petty trader whose small stall of vegetables and household items is the sole lifeline for her four children, life is a constant battle for survival, made harder by the lack of toilets in her community. Without a private toilet facility, she defecates into a thin, black plastic […]

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Health Behind Bars: How Kano Is Extending Health Insurance Coverage to Inmates

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 10, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Kabiru Tanko (not his real name) was among the inmates moved from the dilapidated Kurmawa Custodial Centre to the newly built Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Janguza, Kano, in May 2025. Since the relocation, Tanko says, many prisoners have developed urgent health needs that require prompt medical attention. “On several occasions […]

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Within the Lines: Komfot Health Provides Life-Saving Post-Abortion Care Amid Nigeria’s Unclear Laws

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 3, 2025

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead writer) When Cecilia Ahmadu began bleeding heavily, three days after performing a self-induced abortion, she knew something had gone wrong. “I was using more than three pads [daily] a few days after my abortion, I did not have anyone to talk to. I was worried and afraid,” Cecilia recalled. Abortions remain illegal […]

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Your eDokta Will See You Now: A Telemedicine Clinic is Bridging Maternal Health Gaps in Kano

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 21, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Salamatu Yusuf, a resident of Yanoko in Tofa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano remembers how she used to walk about five kilometres, anytime she wants to access healthcare. This was her reality until February 2025, when the eDokta Telemedicine Clinic was launched in the Yanoko. “Before this clinic was brought […]

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