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AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories 26 January – 02 February 2026 AHR’s Top 10 health stories the week

AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories 26 January – 02 February 2026

Mirian Gom February 2, 2026

EDITOR’S NOTE Nigeria’s health and development landscape this week reveals a country caught between progress and peril....

When Care Kills: Inside Nigeria’s Medical Negligence Crisis Where Even the Privileged Are Not Safe Hospital corridor in Nigeria symbolising medical negligence and patient safety crisis

Hospital corridor in Nigeria symbolising medical negligence and patient safety crisis

When Care Kills: Inside Nigeria’s Medical Negligence Crisis Where Even the Privileged Are Not Safe

Oluwatobi Adu January 21, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – On paper, hospitals exist to heal. In reality, for thousands of Nigerians each year,...

Kano Deputy Governor Mourns AHR Reporter’s Mother’s Death Deputy Governor of Kano State, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo

Kano Deputy Governor Mourns AHR Reporter’s Mother’s Death

Oluwafunbi Bello January 16, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – The Deputy Governor of Kano State, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo, extends condolences to the...

AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories January 6 – 11, 2026

Mirian Gom January 12, 2026

EDITOR’S NOTE The first full week of 2026 opens with Nigeria confronting familiar fault lines in its...

Silent Bells, Steady Feet: How Abuja Learned to Celebrate Without Excess Families shopping at Abuja mall during festive season

Silent Bells, Steady Feet: How Abuja Learned to Celebrate Without Excess

Juliet Jacob January 6, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Abuja does not shout when it celebrates. It hums. During the 2025–2026 festive season,...

When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep Residents fleeing homes after night raid near Abuja outskirts

Residents fleeing homes after night raid near Abuja outskirts

When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep

Juliet Jacob December 14, 2025

(By Juliet Jacob, and Hussaini Ibrahim) Once, Abuja was spoken of in hushed admiration — a carefully...

The Last Shift: Inside Nigeria’s Spiralling Healthcare Exodus, the Fight to Save a Dying Workforce UBTH emergency ward showing overcrowded beds and limited staff.

UBTH emergency ward showing overcrowded beds and limited staff.

The Last Shift: Inside Nigeria’s Spiralling Healthcare Exodus, the Fight to Save a Dying Workforce

Otamere Gladness November 18, 2025

EDO, Nigeria – At exactly 6:45 a.m., the emergency ward at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital...

Tomori Blames Poor Governance for Nigeria’s Lowest Global Life Expectancy Professor Oyewale Tomori speaks on Nigeria’s 54.9-year life expectancy crisis

Professor Oyewale Tomori speaks on Nigeria’s 54.9-year life expectancy crisis

Tomori Blames Poor Governance for Nigeria’s Lowest Global Life Expectancy

Korede Abdullah October 25, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Renowned virologist and public health expert, Professor Oyewale Tomori, has blamed Nigeria’s poor life...

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis

Chukwu Obinna October 16, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – At first glance, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), projects modernity — broad highways,...

The Girl Who Carried Her Mother’s Secret A young girl in a faded blue dress sits on a wooden bench outside a mud-walled house, her back turned to the camera, with a small notebook beside her