When the Nigerian National Assembly passed the HIV and AIDS Anti-Stigma and Discrimination Bill, we could no think of any one better to offer a...

Earlier this year, we wrote a blog wondering aloud about the N701Million (USD5M) allocated to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that year. We...

The piece below was contributed by Anja Choon, who is joining the Nigeria Health Watch Team. The Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa is...

The World TB Day passed quietly in Nigeria. The government probably prefers it this way. Nigeria is among the 22 high TB burden countries in...

Over the past few months, there have been various reports in the media about a dramatic fall in maternal mortality rates in Nigeria. This has...

On the front cover of Save the Children’s latest report “”Ending newborn deaths” is a newborn baby at a clinic in northern Nigeria. But this is...

Our friend and colleague; Dr Femi Sunmonu, Director of PurpleSource Healthcare, a healthcare management and investment company transforming the mass market private healthcare space in...

As our public health sector continues to deteriorate, it is impossible not to notice the absence of any sustained advocacy. This is most obvious in...

Recently the Minister of Health called the press together and presented the WHO certificate of elimination to the President. He is reported to have said during the ceremony...

It has been circulating through the rumour mill for quite some time, but now it is confirmed. The Minister of Health  has declared that he...

N262B (1.7Billion USD) has been allocated to #health in Nigeria’s 2014 budget; of which 82% is going to recurrent expenditure. All the detailed allocations to the Ministry...

Sadly, we are faced with another tragedy. Award-winning novelist and popular academic unionist, Festus Iyayi, was killed in Lokoja when a vehicle in the convoy...