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Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation Champions Primary Healthcare at Africa Forum

By The Insight Team July 16, 2025 357

mostbet pinup sekabet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet The Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation has reiterated its commitment to strengthening primary healthcare systems in Africa by sharing practical lessons and success stories at the Africa Primary Healthcare Forum held in Abuja on July 14 and 15, 2025.   The forum, hosted by the West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH), brought together health leaders and policy […]Continue Reading

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Blended Finance: A Model for Nigeria’s Public Sector

By The Insight Team July 3, 2025 662

By Bukky Akinsemoyin, Director, Funding & Partnerships, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation In the first quarter of 2024, Nigeria allocated more than 70% of its revenue to servicing debt, a staggering figure that leaves little room to fund critical development sectors such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, and public service delivery. This fiscal pressure is not unique Continue Reading

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Nigerians turn to unregulated local herbs for treatment as essential drugs remain unaffordable

By The Insight Team November 29, 2023 1021 Post a comment

… Saw Palmetto cancer drug price surges from N65,000 to N200,000 in just one year. Key points: Patients now result to use of unregulated drugs Essential medicine scarce, out of stock Major health crisis looms as prices of drugs prices soar How GSK’s exit complicates Nigeria’s drug problem Government need to promote localization of pharmaceutical […]Continue Reading

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Inside Abuja Area One IDP Camp where hunger and sickness prevail

By The Insight Team April 25, 2023 2460

By Daniel Adaji Hajia Bintu Ali, a 53-year-old mother of ten, fled to the Abuja Area One Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp for refuge after a deadly Boko Haram attack in her community in Gwoza local government area, Borno state. Everyone fled for safety. Many persons were killed, and several others are missing to date. […]Continue Reading

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Report: 34 States fail to meet the 15% adequate health funding benchmark between 2020 and 2022

By The Insight Team October 5, 2022 579

Nigeria’s health budget as a percentage of the total budget is declining Public health allocations by state governments per person have fallen from $10.8 per person in 2020 to $8.5 per person in 2022 By Daniel Adaji Federal and several state governments in Nigeria continue to fall short of the 15 percent continental health funding […]Continue Reading

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Oversight: Zulum shows up 10pm at Bama hospital

By The Insight Team September 6, 2022 589

… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading

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Here are countries to where Nigerian doctors flee, and why

By The Insight Team September 6, 2022 1736 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah Though emigration of doctors from Nigeria to developed countries is not a new phenomenon, a recent survey has revealed that the current rate of emigration by doctors which intensified in that last three years may be injurious to the country’s health sector. The survey conducted NOI Poll and Nigeria Health Watch showed […]Continue Reading

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

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 776

 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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Covid-19: Today’s Report

By The Insight Team April 3, 2020 569

The charts below show the current state of Covid-19 in Nigeria. Death is still low, but there are concerns about its spread in the South-West, especially. There are fewer cases in the North. But this does not give a clear idea of the situation there, because fewer tests have been conducted in that part of […]Continue Reading

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‘How they survived Covid-19’

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 719

As Covid-19 pandemic is ruining the lives of thousands of persons across the world, some survivors are telling their stories, which span the signs and symptoms of the virus attack, quality of medical support they received, the height of fear they suffered, some common social and health solutions, and how they eventually recovered from the […]Continue Reading

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10 Main Points in Buhari’s Covid-19 Speech

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 741

Whole instrument of government mobilized to tackle pandemic Covid-19 has no cure to date Three preventive measures are (i) regular hygiene (ii) sanitary practice (iii) social distancing N15 billion set aside as response Citizens in Lagos, FCT and Ogun should stay at home Air travels suspended Relief materials for satellite towns in Lagos and Abuja […]Continue Reading

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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 746

  ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading