We have spent the last few months in the Nigerian press quarrelling about “zoning”. Almost no airtime is given to the issues that challenge our...

Every year our Federal Ministry of Health, and the multitude of development partners at its service produce hundreds of reports about their plans and activity. Most of...

Dear Presidential Candidates, While you argue about the most banal issues such as zoning arrangements, single or double terms, north and south etc and all the other issues...

Those that went to medical school in the University of Nigeria in 90s will remember an articulate, passionate and scholarly teacher we had in first...

2010 has been a difficult year for keeping tabs on our Federal Ministry of Health. We have our 3rd Minister of Health in 4 years,...

For a long time, our leaders have taken Nigerians for a ride, quoting astronomical amounts of money for delivering nothing. One major reason for this...

As part of the Second Nigeria: Partnership for Health Conference that held in London on the 6th of November, the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria...

On the 6th November 2010, over 150 colleagues working in different capacities within the Nigerian health sector assembled at the beautiful facilities of the  Royal College of...

Anyone following Nigerian politics will have seen the uproar in the press when the the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Lamido Sanusi made public,...

The Wikileaks cable leaks continue and today, makes allegations on Pfizer’s attempts to influence a settlement on the clinical trials lawsuit filed against it by...

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...