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Bill Gates Shares Optimism about Nigeria’s Future: Says Innovative, Talented Young People are a Powerful Asset

By The Insight Team June 22, 2023 181

LAGOS, Nigeria, 21 June 2023 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- At a forum with students and young innovators from Nigeria and across Africa, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed how science and innovation can accelerate positive change and contribute to a brighter future for Africa. The conversation took place during ‘Advancing Africa: Continue Reading

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Data Analysis: How Nigeria lost her health personnel, and how to win them back

By The Insight Team April 25, 2023 255 0

10 reasons why medical doctors migrate By Daniel Adaji The House of Representatives woke up last week from slumber to rush a Bill that would make it mandatory for Nigerian-trained medical doctors to serve the country for a minimum of five years before they could seek employment in overseas. Realising that their days in the […]Continue Reading

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dRPC tasks government on 2023 health budget; calls for quick releases of funds

By The Insight Team December 7, 2022 224 0

By Daniel Adaji In the 2023 budget, the health sector was allocated N1.17 trillion, but this has not changed the sloppy allocation and releases of health funds in the country,  data analysis by the development Research and Project Centre (dRPC) has revealed. FGN has only about three months to release all funds allocated to the […]Continue Reading

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‘How to tackle Nigeria’s common enemy’

By The Insight Team August 25, 2022 318 0

Research reports, government officials, regional leaders, and stakeholders produce pathways on how to deal with existential challenges facing Nigeria. The solutions were unveiled at ‘Citizens Summit for National Integration, Peace and Security,’ hosted by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) on Tuesday, August 23 and Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at International Continue Reading

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Family Planning: FG fails to complete 2019 counterpart fund

By The Insight Team June 3, 2020 326 0

The Federal Government has failed to complete the payment of its counterpart fund for Family Planning activities in the 2019 health budget, investigations have revealed. Family planning is a component of health strategies to encourage child spacing, promote the health of women of child-bearing age, and to reduce financial pressures on households in Nigeria. Since […]Continue Reading

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10 Takeaway from Buhari’s second speech on Covid-19

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 266 0

 92% of all identified contacts with Covid-19 positive persons has been identified. Testing capacity doubled – 1,500 tests could be conducted daily 7,000 health care workers trained in ‘infection prevention and control’ Health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment NCDC team deployed in 19 out of […]Continue Reading

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[Intelligence] Covid-19 Expenditure and 2020 Health Budget

By The Insight Team April 11, 2020 269 0

Nigeria’s federal and state governments have been on a spending spree to frustrate the spread of coronavirus. Imperative as the spending is, it has raised concerns about the fate of the 2020 health budget. With several health challenges like poor primary healthcare delivery, high maternal mortality rate, poor immunization of children, deaths due to typhoid […]Continue Reading