Special Reports Archives - Africa Health Report

UNGA80 Highlights: Nigeria Pushes Security Seat, Palestine Stance, Global Expectations Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima delivering Nigeria’s statement at UNGA80 in New York, pressing for UN reforms and Africa’s Security Council seat.

Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima delivering Nigeria’s statement at UNGA80 in New York, pressing for UN reforms and Africa’s Security Council seat.

UNGA80 Highlights: Nigeria Pushes Security Seat, Palestine Stance, Global Expectations

Korede Abdullah October 2, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s presence at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) in New York was...

Nigeria’s Endless ASUU Strikes: How Government Neglect Destroys Futures, Economies Nigerian university students sit on the floor holding placards that read “End ASUU Strikes Now” during protest over prolonged university closures.

Nigerian university students sit on the floor holding placards that read “End ASUU Strikes Now” during protest over prolonged university closures.

Nigeria’s Endless ASUU Strikes: How Government Neglect Destroys Futures, Economies

Juliet Jacob October 1, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s university system is once again on the brink of collapse. At the centre...

Pregnancy and Nutrition in Nigeria: Why Mothers, Babies Deserve Better pregnancy nutrition

Pregnancy and Nutrition in Nigeria: Why Mothers, Babies Deserve Better

Mirian Gom September 30, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Behind Nigeria’s high maternal and infant death rates lies a silent crisis: poor nutrition...

Cholera Devastates Bauchi: 58 Dead, Government Blocks Voices from Telling Truth Bauchi Cholera report

Cholera Devastates Bauchi: 58 Dead, Government Blocks Voices from Telling Truth

Hussaini Ibrahim September 29, 2025

…Silenced Survivors, Gagged Health Workers, and a Failing System That Demands Presidential Action BAUCHI, Nigeria – The...

Blinded Futures: Nigeria’s Childhood Eye Crisis Threatens Education, National Growth Nigerian mother helps her daughter adjust new eyeglasses after diagnosis of myopia.

Nigerian mother helps her daughter adjust new eyeglasses after diagnosis of myopia.

Blinded Futures: Nigeria’s Childhood Eye Crisis Threatens Education, National Growth

Juliet Jacob September 28, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – When ten-year-old Chidi squints from the back of his Abuja classroom, the blackboard dissolves...

Forgotten in the Digital Age: How Rural Kano’s Youth Struggle in a Nation Chasing Broadband Dreams Rural Kano classroom where children sit on wooden benches with minimal learning materials, reflecting poor internet access and digital exclusion.

Rural Kano classroom where children sit on wooden benches with minimal learning materials, reflecting poor internet access and digital exclusion.

Forgotten in the Digital Age: How Rural Kano’s Youth Struggle in a Nation Chasing Broadband Dreams

Hussaini Ibrahim September 26, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – Nigeria is sprinting toward ambitious broadband goals, yet in farming towns like Durbunde, Takai...

Nigeria’s Double Burden: Starving, Overfed Children in Crisis A split-scene image showing a thin, hungry child in rural Nigeria holding an empty plate on the left, and an overweight child in Lagos holding a soda and chips on the right, symbolising the country’s double burden of malnutrition and obesity.

A split-scene image showing a thin, hungry child in rural Nigeria holding an empty plate on the left, and an overweight child in Lagos holding a soda and chips on the right, symbolising the country’s double burden of malnutrition and obesity.

Nigeria’s Double Burden: Starving, Overfed Children in Crisis

Korede Abdullah September 24, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – In the bustling streets of Lagos, children line up outside fast-food restaurants clutching bottles...

Why Poor Sleep Is Driving Nigeria’s Health Emergency

Chukwu Obinna September 20, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Hypertension. Diabetes. Depression. Burnout. These are not just statistics in Nigeria—they are daily realities...

Degrees vs Skills: Can Nigeria Break the Stigma Fueling Youth Unemployment? A split-image showing a worried Nigerian graduate holding a CV beside a smiling skilled worker using a laptop in a workshop.