Africa Health Report

Nigeria’s Missing Doctors: Can the Diaspora Fill the Gap? Nigerian healthcare workers in a hospital ward

Nigeria’s Missing Doctors: Can the Diaspora Fill the Gap?

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius August 10, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria- The video consultation can cross borders in seconds. Expertise can travel from Maryland to Abuja,...

WHO Backs African Health Training Reforms WHO delegates and African health officials at the competency-based health training workshop in Dakar.

WHO delegates and African health officials at the competency-based health training workshop in Dakar.

WHO Backs African Health Training Reforms

Oluwatobi Adu July 18, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria — The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting nine African countries, including Nigeria, to fast-track...

Nigeria Hired 37,000 Health Workers. Why Are Doctors, Nurses Still Leaving? A crowded public hospital waiting area

Nigeria Hired 37,000 Health Workers. Why Are Doctors, Nurses Still Leaving?

Korede Abdullah July 16, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Every day, Nigeria loses some of its most experienced doctors and nurses to hospitals...

Nigeria Health Crisis: Workforce Shortage, Drug Imports Threaten System – NAS Dr. Odubanjo speaking on Nigeria’s health workforce crisis in Lagos

Nigeria Health Crisis: Workforce Shortage, Drug Imports Threaten System – NAS

Korede Abdullah March 26, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has warned that Nigeria’s worsening shortage of health...

Kaduna Recruits 1,800 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Healthcare kaduna-health-workers-service-commitment-news-report.md

Kaduna Recruits 1,800 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Healthcare

Chukwu Obinna December 23, 2025

KADUNA, Nigeria – The Kaduna State Government completes the recruitment of 1,800 healthcare workers as part of...

Poor Pay Drives Young Nigerians Away from Medicine – Ipaye Warns Dr Babatunde Ipaye speaking at the NMA NEC meeting in Abeokuta

Poor Pay Drives Young Nigerians Away from Medicine – Ipaye Warns

Korede Abdullah December 4, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Former Ogun State Health Commissioner, Dr Babatunde Ipaye, warns that poor remuneration for Nigerian...

Lawmakers Probe Doctors’ Private Practice During Work Hours House of Representatives debates and suspends WAEC’s planned CBT exams

Lawmakers Probe Doctors’ Private Practice During Work Hours

Mirian Gom November 14, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s House of Representatives has on Thursday launched an investigation into the rising trend...

Council Backs Training of More Nurses Amid Workforce Crisis Nursing students during training at a university lab in Nigeria

Council Backs Training of More Nurses Amid Workforce Crisis

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius November 12, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) has pledged to support the training...

Kaduna to Recruit 9,000 New Health Workers in Five Years kaduna-recruit-9000-health-workers-2025.docx

Kaduna to Recruit 9,000 New Health Workers in Five Years

Mirian Gom November 9, 2025

KADUNA, Nigeria – The Kaduna State Government has announced plans to recruit 9,000 additional health personnel over...

Nigeria Unveils Six Year Pan to Strengthen Nursing, Midwifery Workforce

Koko Maxwella October 23, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Government has launched the Nigeria Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery (NSDNM)...

health workforce

Nigeria’s Missing Doctors: Can the Diaspora Fill the Gap?

WHO Backs African Health Training Reforms

Nigeria Hired 37,000 Health Workers. Why Are Doctors, Nurses Still Leaving?

Nigeria Health Crisis: Workforce Shortage, Drug Imports Threaten System – NAS

Kaduna Recruits 1,800 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Healthcare

Poor Pay Drives Young Nigerians Away from Medicine – Ipaye Warns

Lawmakers Probe Doctors’ Private Practice During Work Hours

Council Backs Training of More Nurses Amid Workforce Crisis

Kaduna to Recruit 9,000 New Health Workers in Five Years

Nigeria Unveils Six Year Pan to Strengthen Nursing, Midwifery Workforce

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