You would have all heard about our President’s recent  trip to New York for the UN high level meeting on HIV/AIDS. Apart from a few...

We are not quite sure whether we should be celebrating a new trend we have noticed emerging in Nigeria or not. In many Nigerian newspapers there are...

Between the 14th and 16th of May, we attended the first Africa Health exhibition that took place in Johannesburg. It attracted over 290 international exhibitors from...

We have blogged a lot about outbreaks in Nigeria, and the apathy of our government in responding to them. We have stated our worries about...

This article first appeared in the new country edition of AFRICA HEALTHIn the last four years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency, Nigeria had four Ministers of...

We will be bringing you a series of articles intermittently over the next few months on Nigerians who have decided to challenge conventional wisdom, and...

Yesterday was Mothering Sunday (8th May) in some countries among Christian communities (would it not be great if a common date was agreed across all...

The night we posted the last blog I got an email from a good friend in Lagos. I have not been able to get this...

In 2010, The Lancet published a new worldwide study on maternal mortality showing that for the first time in decades, we are experiencing a significant...

The past week has been a difficult on to endure for many Nigerians. From the optimism of elections to the depression of post-election violence. With a...

Iyabo Obasanjo, veterinary doctor, daughter of our former president and former senator of our Federal Republic famously lost her seat in the Nigerian Senate in last weekend’s elections....

I was recently in Enugu, and visited my medical school – the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH).  I had lunch in the residents’ common...