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Nigeria Health Watch’s Kaduna Policy Dialogue Promotes Sustainable PHC Financing
Nigeria Health Watch’s policy dialogue, themed “Advancing Sustainable Financing and Workforce Capacity for Equitable Primary Health Care [PHC] Delivery and Improved Health Outcomes in Kaduna State,” sought to tackle persistent challenges in the state’s PHC system. Participants of the Nigeria Health Watch Policy Dialogue In 2011, the Federal Government introduced…
Read More »2021 NFNV Nigeria youth expo explores prospects of MSMEs, post-Covid-19
Covid-19 restrictions have left a majority of MSMEs struggling to survive while others have even folded up. In view of the devastating impact of the pandemic on businesses, the Youth Impact Team of New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Nigeria last weekend, hosted a two-day virtual youth expo focused on the…
Read More »Surviving Covid-19, living with its stigma
Misinformation continues to intensify prejudice against survivors of the coronavirus in Nigeria; they continue to suffer from a wide-range of discriminations – being ostracized by their families, profiled in their communities as well as facing cyberbullying Under the cover of the enveloping darkness over Lagos, the slim, tall…
Read More »NFNV Nigeria holds 3rd Youth MMSME Solution Expo virtually, March 20th, 21st
Having successfully organized Katsina’s biggest MMSME Solution Expo in 2018 followed by Katsina’s biggest SME Solution Expo in 2019, the Youth Impact Team of the New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Nigeria is now set to hold a virtual international youth MMSME solution expo, between March 20th and 21st. …
Read More »Towards improved Child Birth Spacing Services in Kano
As part of the civil society’s support to the Kano State Government on improving Child Birth Spacing (CBS) services and commodities, the Kano State-Led Accountability Mechanism (KanSLAM), recently hosted a three-day workshop for the development of the 2021 Kano State Costed CBS Work Plan. The activity was supported by the Women’s Integrated Services…
Read More »Raising political profile of Human Capital Development in the media
As part of efforts towards achieving the overall goal of raising the political profile of Health Entitlements (HE) and Human Capital Development (HCD) in Nigeria, the Kano State-Led Accountability Mechanism (KanSLAM), with support of the UK government-funded Lafiya programme, this week, trained select Kano journalists on infusing HE and HCD…
Read More »OP-ED: | Nigeria’s memory loss challenge: The burden and way forward, By Isyaku Yarube
Are you becoming more forgetful? Do you often get confused as to whether or not you have locked the front door of your house? Do you often forget where you kept your car keys or often miss your scheduled appointments? If you are above forty-five years old and your answer…
Read More »KanSLAM: Fostering accountability in Kano’s MNCH, Covid-19 spending
Accountability is an integral part of democratic governance; it is necessary for improving service delivery and ensuring access to quality life for the citizens Consequently, the work of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the media are seen to be crucial in ensuring policymakers remain accountable to the…
Read More »X-Raying funding gaps in Nigeria’s epidemic preparedness
Funding epidemic preparedness and response (EPR) is indeed a multifaceted affair; it requires the funding of a wide-range of interdependent structures and systems, from surveillance infrastructure to sample collection system and testing laboratories. Without sufficient financial investment by governments at federal, state and local government levels, it is…
Read More »INDEPTH |NCDC: The triumphs and travails of Nigeria’s premier public health institute
Established in 2011, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is mandated to enhance the country’s “preparedness and response to epidemics through prevention, detection and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.” Until November 2018 when President Muhammadu Buhari assented to a bill for an act establishing the Nigeria…
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Nigeria’s Food Concepts Plc transforms employee experience with SAP SuccessFactors
LAGOS, Nigeria, 6 May 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- A leading Nigerian FMCG company has chosen SAP …
