Nigeria Health Watch
Follow us:

Nigeria Health Watch

Author Image

Articles by Nigeria Health Watch

The health sector in the Nigerian presidential debates
19 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
The health sector in the Nigerian presidential debates

Nigeria is changing, and our relationship with our country is changing. It is changing because technology is making it possible. I vividly remember the last...

Read More
The Health Sector in Imo State under Ohakim
04 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Health Sector in Imo State under Ohakim

This blog will remain apolitical…even in a climate of intense politics in Nigeria. We will not suggest how people should vote, but we will try...

Read More
How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?
24 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
How did it get to this full blown crisis in our health sector?

The simmering crisis in our public health care sector has now become a disaster as staff working in hospitals managed directly by the Federal Government have closed...

Read More
Nigerians on the average die 13 years sooner than Ghanaians
17 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Nigerians on the average die 13 years sooner than Ghanaians

So very often in discussing the state of affairs in our country, we tend to compare ourselves to countries in the West, to the “Asian Tigers” or...

Read More
Resign, Minister Resign!
04 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Resign, Minister Resign!

While we stay glued to our television sets watching events unfold in Tunisia and Egypt, we ignore atrocities in our own governance. The image below is the home...

Read More
Crisis in the health sector – but who cares?
31 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Crisis in the health sector – but who cares?

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...

Read More
Good report – BUT how do we move from reports to impact
20 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Good report – BUT how do we move from reports to impact

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...

Read More
A short letter to our presidential candidates
14 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
A short letter to our presidential candidates

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...

Read More
River Blindness: an emerging success story and the Nigerian lady that drove it…
04 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
River Blindness: an emerging success story and the Nigerian lady that drove it…

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...

Read More
Will 2011 see an awakening in our Ministry of Health
01 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Will 2011 see an awakening in our Ministry of Health

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,...

Read More
Bringing our health data to life!
22 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Bringing our health data to life!

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...

Read More
Thank you to three extraordinary senior colleagues
18 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Thank you to three extraordinary senior colleagues

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...

Read More