Doctors in power: We are proud!
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Since restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, we in the medical profession have been extremely lucky to have some of our…
Health minister calls for probe of donor funds
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Without wanting to sound like an inveterate praise singer, Professor Grange gets it right again, calling for a probe of her ministry’s…
Kanu Heart Foundation: Proving sceptics wrong
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The Kanu Heart Foundation is often in the the news …and rightly so! When Kanu set up his foundation in 2002 and…
Information is power? Keeping it hidden is also powerful!
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A lot of interesting bilateral health related initiatives seem to be happening behind the scenes in Nigeria. One is reassured by the…
Health in the News in August: Beautiful, Bad and Ugly
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The press was full of interesting health related news articles out of Nigeria in August. Find a summary attached. Maybe there is…
Grange unveils plans
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The optimism surrounding the recent appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as health minister seems justified looking at recent reports. In her first…
Is your health digging an unhealthy hole in your pocket?....
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The provision of private health care in Nigeria is changing. This change is most profound among staff and dependants of the public…
Why you should give blood
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Found this extremely important posting on Naijablog. Just as important is to ask Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora to become organ…
NIGERIAN CITIES DROWN IN MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE
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Things have never been this bad. Our epileptic industrialisation is leaving problems we cannot cope with. If I told my son that…
MCDN awakes…Kerosene explosions continue
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NTA news….reports the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria is holding its annual congress in Abuja and has made a strong statement…
In memory of Dr Ihekweazu, health centre controversy and health as cash cow
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Avid followers of this blog would have noticed that Chikwe was off to Nigeria for a while recently. This was due to…
1st Set of Graduates from a Private Medical School in Africa
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On the 31st of July 2007, the Igbinedion University , Nigeria’s first private university graduated its first set of 29 medical students….
Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!
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Flipping through the dailies in Nigeria, it is good to note how HIV/AIDS prevention messages have evolved and developed ….from the days…
Still on Covenant Univerity's compulsory HIV testing
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The insistence of Covenant University, believed to be Nigeria’s best private University to justify their policy of pre-graduation compulsory HIV and pregnancy…