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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

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

The Girl Who Carried Her Mother’s Secret

Mirian Gom October 12, 2025

BENUE, Nigeria – In the quiet traditional district of Shagev-Yav, nestled within Kwande Local Government Area of...

Africa Health Report: Top 10 Health Stories of the Week

Mirian Gom September 29, 2025

22–28 September 2025 📝 Editor’s Note This week’s health stories shine a stark light on the widening...

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...

Africa Health Report: Top 10 Health Stories of the Week Top 10 Nigeria Health News This Week | Africa Health Report

Africa Health Report: Top 10 Health Stories of the Week

Mirian Gom September 22, 2025

AHR | 15–21 September 2025 📝 Editor’s Note This week’s health landscape across Nigeria paints a stark...

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

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

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

The Girl Who Carried Her Mother’s Secret

Africa Health Report: Top 10 Health Stories of the Week

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

Africa Health Report: Top 10 Health Stories of the Week

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