On World Malaria Day we asked Dr Uchenna Nwokenna, a Medical Epidemiologist and Health Systems Specialist who has spent most of the last year working...

A little over  a year ago, on the 7th of March 2014, top level officials in the Nigerian health sector were called together to attend...

By  Chikwe Ihekweazu There is increasing optimism that we will get to the end of the Ebola epidemic that has so badly affected Liberia, Sierra...

Today is World Health Day, and the theme for this year is “Food safety: from farm to plate, make food safe”. The World Health Organization,...

Have we, the Citizens, done our Part? It is a period of election in Nigeria. Vote counting is going on all across the country, and...

As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa slows and falls away from the headlines, there is a temptation to view this outbreak as an isolated...

While the experience of the average Nigerian with several sectors of the economy has evolved through the use of technology over the past decade, there...

As we approach the new date for the presidential elections, we decided to use the additional time provided by the postponement to scrutinize the two...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently appointed Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti as the new Regional Director for WHO’s Africa Region (WHO AFRO) succeeding Dr Luis...

Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world with 560 women dying for every 100,000 live births. Although there has been...

Last week, in anticipation of the now postponed Nigerian presidential elections on February 14th, we organized a 3 hour tweetathon, focusing on health, which has...

It’s election season in Nigeria, and the volume of the debates online and offline are reaching a deafening pitch. Interestingly the focus of most of...