Africa Health Report

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.

A split-image showing a worried Nigerian graduate holding a CV beside a smiling skilled worker using a laptop in a workshop.

Degrees vs Skills: Can Nigeria Break the Stigma Fueling Youth Unemployment?

Hussaini Ibrahim September 19, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – Nigeria stands at a crossroads. Its universities continue to churn out thousands of graduates...

Race Against Tuberculosis: Will Nigeria Beat the 2030 Deadline?

Korede Abdullah September 18, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – The clock is ticking, and the stakes could not be higher. Tuberculosis (TB), an...

When Stroke Strikes Early: Why More Young Nigerians Are Losing Their Futures young stroke patient for illustration

When Stroke Strikes Early: Why More Young Nigerians Are Losing Their Futures

Juliet Jacob September 17, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Stroke, long seen as a disease of ageing, is now ambushing Nigeria’s youth with...

Ebola at the Gates: Is Nigeria Ready to Stop a Deadly Spillover? Ebola

Ebola at the Gates: Is Nigeria Ready to Stop a Deadly Spillover?

Korede Abdullah September 15, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) battles yet another Ebola outbreak, the shadow...

“This Pregnancy Stole My Life”: Teenage Girls Speak from Nigeria’s Silent Crisis Teenage mother holding her baby at a community health centre in Nigeria

Teenage mother holding her baby at a community health centre in Nigeria

“This Pregnancy Stole My Life”: Teenage Girls Speak from Nigeria’s Silent Crisis

Koko Maxwella September 14, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – In Abuja, the nation’s capital, amid the laughter of schoolchildren in crisp uniforms, are...

Mountains of Waste, Rivers of Disease: Inside Karonmajiji’s Public Health Crisis Open waste dump at the entrance of Karonmajiji community in Abuja, showing heaps of refuse scattered near homes and pathways.