Tag: healthcare

Lagos Now Fourth Worst City to Live in the World – Can the Megacity Rise Above Its Challenges?

Lagos, the bustling economic nerve center of Nigeria, has recently faced a setback as it finds itself ranked as the fourth worst city to live in globally, according to the…

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Fuel Subsidy is Gone – President Bola Tinubu

In his inaugural speech as president on Monday, President Bola Tinubu made a significant announcement, stating that the era of petrol subsidies in Nigeria has come to an end. Highlighting…

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Statement from Vedic Lifecare, Lekki

On 29th October 2021, Vedic Lifecare Hospital, Lekki Phase 1 was sealed by the Health Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA). This was due to the fact that three (3) of…

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Buhari’s UK medical trip is once again showing the failure of Nigeria’s healthcare

Just before the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike on April 1, 2021, President Buhari departed Abuja for a medical checkup in the UK. The…

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In search of misplaced priorities? Check Nigeria’s Aso Villa Clinic 2021 budget

During the 2021 Budget Defence at the Nigeria's National Assembly, the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijani Umar claimed that the 1.3 Billion Naira budgeted for the Aso Villa…

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#YNaijaNonBinary: Let’s talk about mental health

People going to therapists or talking about their mental health is a thing I mostly see on TV shows. Foreign TV shows. Therapy remains a low key taboo topic in…

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Though the Eti-Osa Isolation centre is closing, YPO is still committed to contributing its quota to improving healthcare in Nigeria

In an effort to help the community the Young President Organisation (YPO) Lagos Chapter approached the Lagos State Government and on March 31st, 2020 embarked on setting up a free…

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If President Buhari’s campaign promises are fulfilled, Nigeria’s healthcare sector might have a great boost

On the 27th of February 2019, Mohammed Buhari was declared the winner of the 2019 presidential elections. In wake of the new administration, we can begin looking forward to a…

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LGBT

The SSMPA bill should not affect how Nigerian healthcare treats the LGBT community

In Nigeria, 201 the Same sex marriage prohibition (SSMP) being bill passed into the law in Nigeria, with a 14-year imprisonment sentence for defaulters. Before this, there had always been…

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WHO

Nigeria’s life expectancy rankings should make you very worried

Beginning from 2018, a male child given birth to in Nigeria is expected to live for an approximated 54.7 years while the female is expected to live approximately 55.7 years.…

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Buhari promises to assist a visually impaired corp member but what about other Nigerians?

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to assist a visually impaired corp member, Okenala Ahmed currently serving in Daura, Katsina. The President made the promise while receiving corp members, who thronged his…

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In Bayelsa, healthcare receives a boost as Governor Dickson provides N1.2bn to improve healthcare delivery

This is a good time to be alive for every indigene of Bayelsa as Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has provided the sum of 1.2 billion naira to boost the improvement…

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Sokoto

In Sokoto, patients are being forced to take treatment under trees

Akin to the type of scene you see in a war zone, the picture shows sick women sleeping on the sand under a tree with drip hanged on the tree…

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Opinion: Nigerian Healthcare is non-existent, we should all be terrified

Last Monday, Linda Ikeji broke a story on the death of Oluwaseun Ezekiel, who had just graduated from the University of Lagos and was due to serve her fatherland in…

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Mercy Abang: In Oguta, women risk death to give birth

Down the muddy drive to Mgbele from Oguta Local Government Area sits a dilapidated building with fallen rusty brown roof, cracked walls and flaky, peeling paint and open windows obscured…

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YNaija Editorial: The proposed 2018 budget reiterates just how out of touch our government is

After what has seemed like a year teetering on the edge of uncertainty, President Buhari has beaten an undisclosed illness that kept him out of the country for 100 days…

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Trump attacks U.S. Congress over delay in healthcare reform

US President Donald Trump in one of his many grievances with Congress, both Republicans and Democrats alike, has decided to overlook its perceived passiveness and take the transformation of healthcare…

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Mercy Abang: Jail Time or Death— Pregnant women in Nigeria face unlikely sentence in hospitals

by Mercy Abang Mrs Audu, 33, had just given birth to her first child at the Asokoro General Hospital. She was ecstatic and could not wait to take her newborn…

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[The Activism Blog] This damning report by NOI polls on Nigeria’s doctors’ deficit should make you weep

There is an impending health crisis in Nigeria that needs to be nipped in the bud immediately. The new report by the Nigeria polling organisation (NOI Polls) and the Nigeria…

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Solve famine, provide healthcare and every other thing Tambuwal could have done with N700m

by Tosin Adesina Governor Aminu Tambuwal has decided to spend the sum of seven hundred million Naira to purchase a new palace for the Sultan in Abuja. But there are…

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“Let Obamacare implode” | Trump reacts to Republicans failure to repeal Obamacare

President Trump in reaction to Senate Republicans failure to repeal Obamacare, tweeted early Friday expressing his disappointment. Trump wrote; "3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As…

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Senator McCain nails the coffin on Obamacare repeal

Early Friday Morning in major dramatic fashion, Senate Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare hit a brick wall when Senator John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined with Democrats to…

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Republican Healthcare bill collapses | Trump calls for “clean slate”

The Republican healthcare bill suffered a huge blow after a second attempt to pass a bill in the Senate collapsed late on Monday, when two more Republican Senators joined the…

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NHIS: Are Nigerians even bothered about healthcare?

by Alexander O. Onukuwe Generally speaking, the current NHIS problems have not raised as much concern on social media as, say, the switch of Etisalat to 9Mobile; it’s not even…

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Trump pushes Republican senators to work harder on healthcare reform

President Trump pushes Republican Senators, Friday to work harder to deliver the promise to repeal Obamacare, CNN reports. President Trump wrote on Twitter from Paris where he invited for Bastille…

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Senate Republicans delay voting on repealing Obamacare till after Fourth of July

Senate Republicans have postponed their plans to vote on repealing Obamacare till after the Fourth of July recess, after encountering strong resistance from moderate and conservative Republicans to even debate…

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President Trump praises Republican Senators on healthcare, says “they really want to get it right”

President Donald Trump praised Senate Republicans for their hard work on the Obamacare repeal movement, after a meeting with them Tuesday. Trump wrote on Twitter; "With ZERO Democrats to help,…

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[The Sexuality Blog]: Quickcare will make healthcare that much easier for LGBTI people in Nigeria

Accessing quick affordable healthcare, especially for LGBTI related issues is easily the biggest problem sexual minorities in Nigeria face after discrimination. Even though this access is tied to discrimination as…

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President Trump set to meet Obamacare “victims”

The  U.S President's Twitter timeline has since been accepted as his official press releases and itinerary. Trump will be heading to Cincinnati, Ohio to meet with those he refers to…

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“It was hard”| Obama bares it all in acceptance speech at the John.F.Kennedy Library Foundation

by  Itunuoluwa Adebo Former President Barack Obama appealed to members of Congress to oppose the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) his signature health care law, Sunday night at…

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