In 2010, The Lancet published a new worldwide study on maternal mortality showing that for the first time in decades, we are experiencing a significant drop in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth globally. The new findings from 181 countries also shows an annual decrease of 1.3% in the maternal […]
The past week has been a difficult on to endure for many Nigerians. From the optimism of elections to the depression of post-election violence. With a heavy heart we re-collect our one year of service to the fatherland through the National Youth Service Corps programme. It appeared to be a masterstroke in innovative thinking to ask corpers to become […]
Iyabo Obasanjo, veterinary doctor, daughter of our former president and former senator of our Federal Republic famously lost her seat in the Nigerian Senate in last weekend’s elections. What has this got to do with our health sector you might be wondering? Well, the former senator was the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health. Those of you […]
I was recently in Enugu, and visited my medical school – the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH). I had lunch in the residents’ common room with a colleague from our medical student days who is now a senior registrar (the final stages of specialist training). I’ll call him Emeka for the purposes of this […]
Nigeria is changing, and our relationship with our country is changing. It is changing because technology is making it possible. I vividly remember the last presidential debates on Nigerian TV, between Chief MKO Abiola and Bashir Tofa before Nigeria’s June 12, 1993 presidential election. It was a grainy show on the Nigerian Television Authority. That […]
