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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

Jul 04, 2026
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From Innovation to Integration: What It Will Take to Make Every Pregnancy Safer in Nigeria

Jul 03, 2026
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Community Feedback Prompts PHC Upgrade in Gauraka, Niger State

Jul 03, 2026
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Why Zambia is Rethinking Tuberculosis Testing, and Why Validation Must Come First

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From Autonomy to Accountability: Can Local Governments Deliver Better Primary Health Care in Nigeria?

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By Nigeria Health Watch | April 8, 2014

Rumors of Ebola in Nigeria: the blind leading the blind?

The piece below was contributed by Anja Choon, who is joining the Nigeria Health Watch Team. The Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa is currently (i.e. in March and April of 2014) in the news. The information one gets in Nigeria is however worryingly little and vague, sometimes simply false. As early as 22 […]

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Nigerian Minister of Health delivers his midterm report – judge for yourself

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 20, 2013

In his recent widely publicized “midterm report“, our President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON barely mentioned the health sector, other than a few references to the “achievements” of his SURE-P programme. So, we were excited when we gathered that our Minister of Health, Professor C. Onyebuchi Chukwu was asked to brief the press […]

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Killing the Health Bill….slowly

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 11, 2012

Leadership. What is leadership? Not a question we will explore in detail in this blog, but suffice it to say that the barest minimum expected of a leader is to take decisions. Sometimes it is as simple as yes or no, sometimes it is more complex but leaders are there to make decisions. That is the […]

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My Chief – The Honourable Minister of Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 21, 2011

In 1996, I started my one year housemanship programme in an unlikely location;  Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba. While not necessarily renowned for its academic or clinical excellence at the time, the hospital in its early years of becoming a teaching hospital had sought some excellent, young, enthusiastic consultants to drive its clinical […]

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Four Ministers in four years: can our Ministry of Health find the leadership it so desperately needs?

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 30, 2011

This article first appeared in the new country edition of AFRICA HEALTHIn the last four years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency, Nigeria had four Ministers of Health. It all started with Professor Adenike Grange, who had an impeccable reputation as a paediatrician and academic. Nigerians had a lot of hope in her leadership. But, her service hardly […]

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