It was in 2007, at an event at the Institute for Global Health at the UCL, I sat on a table at the back of the...

If not please listen to our friends at NTA Network news every night! This is one of the illusions (some say delusions) of grandeur that...

You might not have heard a lot about him, but NAFDAC actually does have a “new” Director General, Dr Paul Orhii. A Russian trained doctor, he holds a...

Last week was particularly interesting. My facebook updates were on-fire again with ooops and aaahhs for another great Obama speech. …yes it was a great...

by ndubuisi edeoga Four resolutions aimed at scaling up action in areas deemed key to improving the health situation on the African continent were proposed...

(apologies for typos in previous post…pressed send too early!) I love sports…even if I am not great at any myself. I love sports in the...

In 2008 …the erstwhile Minister of our Federal Capital announced with great fanfare that smoking was banned in Abuja! Thisday declared that the is a...

Its interesting driving around Abuja….our beloved capital city. You see refuse disposal trucks with smartly dressed young men emptying the bins….impressive. Then you drive around...

In our last post “The contradictions of Abuja” there were three important points. 1. That our government that has shown that building a ten lane...

There is a huge project going on in Abuja at the moment. The beatiful trees that lined both sides of the motorway from the airport...

Reuters – KANO, Nigeria, July 27 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Kano state and drugmaker Pfizer Inc have reached a final court settlement in a multi-billion dollar...

Health in the Nigerian polity is often discussed in terms of “hospitals built“…. While all these are important to some extent…no building has ever saved...