On a cold morning on Saturday the 22nd of November, over 200 professionals with a commitment to improving the health of Nigerians met at the...

This piece was first publised on the BMJ blog by ike anya and chikwe ihekweazuA quiet milestone passed in May this year, when Nigerians marked...

In many online forums there have been discussions, often heated about the value of so called “medical missions” to Nigeria by Nigerian medical professionals living...

Have you registered for the Conference: Nigeria: Partnership for Health Do not sit on the fence…ENGAGE! Today is the deadline for bursaries. For details go...

In November 2007, on a cold November night we sat in an auditorium at UCL in London listening to the annual lecture of The Lancet....

We will occasionaly bring you a piece by a guest write Kingsley Obom-Egbulem. KC has been reporting on health issues for a few years and...

by Ndubuisi Edeoga The Federal Road Safety Commision has been in the news a lot lately. Guardian: January 1, 2009 deadline given to all motorcyclists...

Guardian: A LACK of funds (sic) is delaying the proposed N247 million new model sero-prevalence or (not sure what “or” means) sentinel surveillance survey on...

Dr Hassan Lawal oon, Minister for LabourSupervising Minister, Ministry for HealthFederal Republic of NigeriaDear Sir,Thank you!One of the features of the YarAdua administration is that...

You could not make this up…but this is how our health sector is being run… 2 years after a failing agency the National Programme for...

I ran into Olayide Akanni last week while catching the Number 8 bus in Geneva. Most of you reading this blog will know that Layide...

From AfricaLoft:Ghana is reportedly one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa which have made tremendous progress in reducing infant and maternal deaths. The country...