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Lola Adeyemi Redefining Equitable Healthcare In Emerging Markets
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Commentary

Lola Adeyemi: Redefining Equitable Healthcare In Emerging Markets

In the tapestry of global health innovation, few stories weave together personal resilience, academic brilliance, and transformative leadership as compellingly as that of Dr. Lola Adeyemi. A physician-scientist, healthcare entrepreneur, and recently named one of Poets & Quants’ 2025 Best & Brightest Executive MBAs from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Born in extraordinary circumstances literally in a stranger’s car after her parents’ vehicle broke down enroute to the hospital, […]

todayAugust 15, 2025

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General

UNDP Commends Nigeria’s Commitment To Healthcare, Gender Equality

The United Nations' Assistant Secretary General, Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, has commended Nigeria's government and the National Assembly for voting $200 million for healthcare in Nigeria. The commendation followed the withdrawal of funding assistance by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Speaking at a meeting in Lagos with a delegation of the House of Representatives led by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, Eziakonwa, who is also the African Regional […]

todayApril 13, 2025

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National

House Committee Seeks Healthcare Partnership

The House of Representatives Committee on Specialty Healthcare is calling for partnership to enhance specialized healthcare delivery in Nigeria. Chairman of the committee, Alex Egbona made the call at a stakeholders' roundtable, stressing the need for collaborative efforts to tackle challenges faced by specialized healthcare providers. According to him, the committee has identified several key areas for partnership, including mental and brain health, trauma and obstetrics fistula, oral health, ear […]

todayMarch 27, 2025

Ministerial briefing, FG To Revive ,Expand, Upgrade PHC
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Health

FG To Revive ,Expand, Upgrade 8,300 Primary Healthcare Centers

The Federal Government has laid down a plan through the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency to expand the eight thousand three hundred primary healthcare centers to seventeen thousand primary healthcare centers. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate made this known in Abuja at the sectoral Ministerial Media Briefing to mark the one-year anniversary of President Bola Tinubu in office. Professor Pate noted that the seventeen thousand […]

todayMay 27, 2024

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Health

Health Indices : Kogi State Will Do Well -Health Commissioner

Healthcare personnel in rural areas have been advised to update their knowledge to improve their response to disease outbreaks. Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Doctor Abdulazeez Adams gave the advise at the opening of a three-day Surveillance Training of Local Government Area, Rapid Response Teams in Lokoja. The three-day training organized by the Kogi State Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation, WHO, under the COVID-19 Preparedness […]

todayFebruary 23, 2024

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Featured

Poor Primary Healthcare Increasing Death Rate, Says FG

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Health Matters, Dr. Salma Anas-Ibrahim, said the poor attention to primary health care in Nigeria adds to the burden of morbidity and mortality, especially due to pregnancy-related conditions. Anas-Ibrahim also said the challenges to reducing maternal and child deaths remain the problem of a poorly functional PHC system with issues of low healthcare coverage for life-saving interventions; ill-equipped and weak service delivery […]

todayDecember 9, 2023

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Health

Wike To Improve Healthcare Services In 2024

  By Remi Johnson The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says necessary provisions will be made in the 2024 budget to improve quality of healthcare services in the nation's capital. Wike gave the assurance when he received Executive members of the FCT Chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors, led by the President, Dr Rahman Olayinka in Abuja. Wike who expressed dissatisfaction over the current state of […]

todayOctober 18, 2023

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National

Stakeholders Move To Address Lapses In Healthcare Delivery 

Florence Adewale   To enable Nigeria manufacture drugs and other healthcare equipment locally to boost the nation's economy, stakeholders in the health sector have advocated for the transfer of technology.   They made the call in Abuja at a media engagement on lapses hindering improved healthcare services in the country.   Speaking at the event, the National Coordinator, Civil Society In Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition, Mr. Ayo Ipinmoye expressed […]

todaySeptember 29, 2023

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Foreign

Myanmar : Aung San Suu Kyi Denied Urgent Care

Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being denied medical care despite her ill health, her son has said. Kim Aris said the junta ruling the country blocked prison authorities' request for his mother's "urgent care" According to BBC report Burmese severe toothaches have left the 78-year-old unable to eat but a junta spokesman said Ms Suu Kyi is in good health and gets check-ups from military and […]

todaySeptember 6, 2023