When we started this blog we regularly posted news stories on health out of Nigeria. It was and is a difficult experience as there is...

When we started this blog…we promised ourselves that we would stick to health issues. Irrespective of our several hopes, dreams and frustrations of being Nigerian,...

chikwe ihekweazuI would not want to join the debate on the validity of alternative forms of medical practice. Anyways I have always thought that the...

by ndubuisi edeoga The new teaching by the National Stroke Association and so many other agencies involved in health care world over demands that we...

by ike anya The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently announced its funding of a 50 million pound initiative to support the Nigerian...

This is my final blog on Professor Idris Mohammed’s recently published book: “Academics, Epidemics and Politics”….and eventful career in public health” I still recommend that...

Dr Idris Mohamed was the Chairman of the Taskforce of the Federal Republic of Nigeria sent to manage the Outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis when the...

There are several reasons why this blog has been a bit slow over the past 2 weeks. One of of them is that I have...

by chikwe ihekweazu and ike anya At all of the previous four international conferences on AIDS that we have attended, there are always meetings called...

by chikwe ihekweazu and ike anya Every other year, the HIV/AIDS ‘community’, an odd mixture of scientists, youth, community workers, activists, politicians, and various others...

Much has been written about the new Government of Lagos State under its unlikely Governor Babtunde Raji Fashola. Much has been said about the intriguing...

While we wait for all the new Health minister and the anticipated utopia that would follow, it would be nice to add more issues to...