Very rarely have vaccines given us the opportunity to create a small miracle. Unlike the miracle of surgery and antibiotics that brings the ill back...

Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government, then recalled, now...

7 years ago, my emotion laden brother Ike Anya wrote this piece after the Sosoliso crash. Today I read it again and share it with...

Are you following Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter? If not …you should. When we started this blog in 2007, Twitter did not exist and we sometimes tried...

Guest post by Chima Onoka  Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of delivery. The emergency...

Leadership. What is leadership? Not a question we will explore in detail in this blog, but suffice it to say that the barest minimum expected...

When as a child my mother returned from a trip to Cairo, I asked her if Egypt was more developed than Nigeria. She asked me...

The recent refusal of entry and deportation of about 125 Nigerians who had arrived Johannesburg, South Africa aboard ARIK Airlines from Nigeria on Friday has caused...

Every quarter, an Independent Monitoring Board assesses progress towards the attainment of a polio-free world. The Independent Monitoring Board was convened at the request of the World Health Assembly...

I was in Owerri recently and was not sure whether to laugh or cry. The ubiquitous “Okada” motorcycles that ferried (or flew) people around the city...

The protests on the withdrawal of petrol subsidies in Nigeria has provided doctors with an ethical dilemma. Do they join the protests on the petrol...

Over the Christmas period, our country Nigeria was again in the news for the wrong reasons. On Christmas day, we made headline news on all...