Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch Editorial Assistant Beti Baiye. She explores the world of geriatric care in Nigeria and seeks to understand both how we as a country are taking care of our elderly and what we need to do to ensure that age is not a detriment […]
The Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Maiduguri is home to over 30,000 people. It is one of several IDP camps in Borno State where victims of the Boko Haram conflict, forced to abandon their homes, have taken refuge. As a result of this conflict, the longest (since 2009) and one of the deadliest Nigeria […]
Nigeria’s Polio laboratories pass another round of accreditation exercise. Donors provide 95% of HIV/AIDS funding in Nigeria –NACA DG. Fresh Crisis rocks NHIS; Governing Council rejects budget, accuses management of ‘padding’. INVESTIGATION: Abuja drug sellers, street vendors cashing in on codeine ban. Inside some Nigeria’s appalling public health centres. Outbreak of diarrhoea hits Borno. FG’s Vision 2020 ‘Right […]
Beep… beep. Beep…beep…beep! Multiple text and WhatsApp notifications all from the same unfamiliar source. It is late, so I frown with more than a little irritation at my phone, wondering what the notifications are for. A cursory glance through the messages appearing on my phone deepens my frown even further. ‘Marketers…’ I spit out in […]
As the nation’s seat of power, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is usually associated with splendour. This opinion about the city is often formed by the images of wide roads and beautiful structures in the city centre and Abuja’s plush neighbourhoods and from images on social media. But for some who live in Abuja and […]
