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...

By Ike Anya A few days ago while in Abuja, I was surprised to hear the news presenter announce that a Federal High Court had...

By Chizoba Wonodi Nigeria launched the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into its childhood immunization schedule in Lokoja, on December 22nd 2014. PCV...

An interesting scenario played out in 2014. After a strike that lasted about two months, all resident doctors in Nigeria were sacked; the strike was...

We rarely have much to celebrate in the health sector, and broadly this is still the case. The fundamental reform that the sector requires to...

Dear Readers, Colleagues and Friends, Today is the 23rd of December. The day after tomorrow some of us will be rejoicing the birth of Christ....

In continuation of our series of visits aimed at bringing some of the interesting healthcare interventions in Nigeria to the public, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and...

Late last night, we got information from a very reliable source that President Goodluck Jonathan had signed the National Health Bill into law. This morning,...

It was World AIDS Day yesterday. We debated about writing a piece about the size of the epidemic, which at over 3 million cases in...

The National Health Bill For the second time since he became president, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has the chance to sign a new National Health...