Sharon Atieno Onyango (Guest writer) At 17, Lynet hoped to continue her education and train as a nurse. After she became pregnant, she says, those...

Beti Baiye (Guest Writer) LLNP, or Long Life and Prosperity, is a common birthday wish expressing hope for a long, fulfilling life. However, given that...

Jagat Narula and Bente Mikkelsen (Guest writers) Last week at the United Nations, the Governments of Nigeria and Uganda, with the World Health Organization (WHO),...

Yahuza Bawage (Lead writer) At 6:27 a.m. on a Saturday, the emergency phone rang at the Yobe State Emergency Medical Ambulance Services Agency (YEMABUS) headquarters...

Marie Ba and Dr Alain Damiba (Guest writers) On 31 October, Dakar will open the 2026 Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympic sporting event ever...

Uche Ralph-Opara and Kenneth Ojobor (Guest writers) Zariya Hashiru was pregnant when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in the Napu community, Niger State. She...

Yasir Jamal Bakare and Toluwani Oluwatola (Lead writers) The National Health Insurance Authority(NHIA) announced in July 2026 that enrolment had reached 22.03 million people. For...

Shehu Muhammad Shehu (Lead Writer) Hadiza Abdullahi travelled from the Mallamawan Yari community in the Rabah Local Government Area to the Gagi Primary Health Care...

Miracle Adeniyi-Ogunjide, third-place winner of the Nigeria Health Watch 2026 Menstrual Hygiene Essay Competition, reflects on how pain, period poverty, poor school toilets and stigma...

Lukman Abdulmalik (Lead writer) For several farming seasons, Aminu Sule watched the price of NPK and urea rise without seeing a comparable increase in the...

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi  Kofi, 38, married with three children, works as a commercial minibus driver known in Ghana as  ‘tro-tro’. He plies along the Accra–Kaneshie...

Modupe Babawale (Guest writer) Every year on June 19, Nigeria joins the global community to observe World Sickle Cell Day. The 2026 theme, “Closing the...