Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, predecessor of the current Nigerian health minister has been appointed to head the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the agency announced recently....

I am sitting in my friend’s living room in Lagos in mid-October. Her boisterous young sons occasionally tear themselves away from the cartoons they are...

Dear Friends,  You will have noticed that things have been a bit slow on the blog lately. We have been busy putting together a conference Nigeria:...

Vaccinations are celebrated as one of the miracles of modern medicine. In the past 50 years, it has saved more lives worldwide than any other...

Long before we started blogging, we would copy and paste the few stories on health from the Nigerian press on emails, and send these round....

I cannot forget reading the epic “Cry the beloved country” in my early teens, and the impact it had on my life. This novel by...

Picture courtesy of 234Next On Saturday, 11 September,  Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), who came into the office of the presidency accidentally declared his...

That kidnapping is said to have become one of the biggest industries in Imo and Abia States is no longer news. An analysis of the tragedy...

While in medical school in Nigeria, I learnt a bit about cholera …that it is an infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, and that...

Those of you that read Nigeria Health Watch regularly, will know that we routinely collect interesting health news stories in the Nigerian press, and then blog about...

Since the very successful first Nigeria: Partnership for Health Conference in 2008, we have received several enquiries about when the next conference will take place....

One great thing about going for conferences is the fascinating people you meet. One such person I met at the last International Conference on AIDS...