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‘Every 7 minutes, a woman dies during childbirth in Nigeria’ – UNICEF

May 16, 2026May 16, 2026 Aminu Imam

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised concern over Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate, disclosing that a woman dies every seven minutes during childbirth in the country. The UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office, Francis Busiku Butichi, made the disclosure yesterday in Maiduguri, during the symbolic handover of WASHFIT supplies to health facilities in Borno State. He attributed the high maternal deaths to poor hygiene conditions, weak infection prevention systems and unsafe environments in many health facilities across the country. Butichi said health facilities, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings,…

Resident doctors shelve strike, give FG conditions

April 27, 2026April 27, 2026 Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its planned indefinite nationwide strike following fresh commitments by the Federal Government (FG) on allowances, arrears, and training funding. The decision was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held virtually on Saturday, April 26. The communiqué was jointly signed by the NARD President, Mohammad Suleiman; Secretary-General, Shuaibu Ibrahim; and Publicity and Social Secretary, Abdulmajid Ibrahim. According to the association, the decision followed high-level engagements with key government officials and stakeholders across…

Resident doctors to begin indefinite strike Tuesday

April 5, 2026April 5, 2026 Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has declared an indefinite nationwide strike beginning at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, citing what it described as the Federal Government’s plan to halt the implementation of the revised Professional Allowance Table, a key component of agreements reached after its 2025 industrial action. The decision, which threatens to disrupt healthcare services across public hospitals in Nigeria, was reached at the end of the association’s virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting held yesterday. Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, NARD National…

Resident doctors set to resume ‘total strike’

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 Aminu Imam

The National Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD), has announced plans to resume its Total, Indefinite and Complete Strike (TICS 2.0) on January 12, 2026, citing the Federal Government’s failure to implement agreements made in a previously signed Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU). The association disclosed the update in a statement shared on X, signed by its President, Dr. Mohammad Suleiman, following an Emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Friday, warned that the country could face another nationwide disruption of medical services if its demands are not met. The planned industrial…

‘Nigeria’s medical tourism spending falls 96%’ – CBN

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 Aminu Imam

…As local healthcare capacity deepens Nigeria’s long-standing reliance on overseas medical treatment appears to be rapidly reversing, as new data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) shows a dramatic collapse in spending on medical tourism, signalling a major shift in healthcare utilisation toward domestic facilities. According to CBN figures covering January to June 2025, Nigeria’s medical tourism spending plunged by 96.2% year-on-year, falling from $2.38 million in the first half of 2024 to just $0.09 million in the corresponding period of 2025. The sharp contraction, amounting to a $2.29…

Trump hands Nigeria £1.6bn health package in return for protecting Christians

December 27, 2025December 27, 2025 Aminu Imam

…As US, FG seal landmark $5.1bn pact The United States (U.S) and Nigeria have signed a landmark five-year bilateral health cooperation agreement worth $5.1 billion (£4bn), with Washington contributing nearly £1.6bn ($2.1bn) and Abuja committing about £2.2bn ($3bn) in new domestic health spending—the largest co-investment under President Donald Trump’s ‘America First Global Health Strategy’ to date. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed in December, is aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s healthcare system, reducing preventable deaths, and combating HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, and maternal and child mortality. Nigeria currently bears about 30%…

‘850,000 children die yearly from preventable causes’ — Health Minister

November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, revealed that an estimated 850,000 Nigerian children under the age of five die every year from preventable causes such as premature birth complications and pneumonia. Speaking in Abuja at the joint national commemoration of the ‘2025 World Pneumonia Day’ and ‘World Prematurity Day’ on Wednesday, Pate, represented by the Director of Health Promotion, John Urakpa, said the grim figures underscore Nigeria’s struggle to meet global child survival targets despite some progress in recent years. Pate acknowledged that Nigeria had made…

Cholera outbreak: Zamfara Gov. distributes intervention drugs across 14 LGAs

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Aminu Imam

Zamfara State government has distributed cholera intervention drugs and medical consumables across the state. The cholera intervention drugs is aimed at containing the spread of the disease’s across the 14 local government areas (LGAs) of the State. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nafisa Muhammad Maradun, who flagged-off the distribution at the Drugs and Medical Consumable Agency (DMCA) Store, Samaru Gusau, said the distribution represented the state government’s swift and timely response to the cholera outbreak, stressing that all items were provided free of charge and warned medical personnel against diversion…

‘Northern Nigeria faces severe doctors shortage” – Report

November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 Aminu Imam

Northern Nigeria is grappling with an alarming shortage of medical doctors, with some states recording a single doctor attending to over 43,000 patients, according to the SBM ‘Health Preparedness Index 2025’ report. The report, which assessed the readiness of Nigeria’s 36 states to handle health emergencies and deliver quality medical services, paints a dire picture of healthcare inequality across the country. It revealed that northern states such as Bauchi, Zamfara, and Kebbi are the most affected, with each doctor catering to tens of thousands of patients. Bauchi tops the list,…

Resident doctors to begin indefinite strike Nov. 1

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD), has announced plans to commence an indefinite nationwide strike starting November 1. NARD President, Mohammad Suleiman, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said the strike directive was issued after the expiration of a 30-day ultimatum earlier given to the Federal Government over unresolved demands. This latest action comes after a five-hour meeting of the association’s National Executive Council (NEC) on Saturday. “The NEC has marshalled out minimum demands, strike monitoring directives, and ‘no work-no pay/no pay-no work’ resolutions needed for a successful…