When the Director-General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Kelechi Ohiri, paid a courtesy visit to the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, recently, the discussion was not only about standard pleasantries of inter-agency diplomacy.

Remember That Time Nigeria’s Government Claimed There Was “Reverse Medical Tourism”? By Chinedu Moghalu Recently, a U.S. physician named Pamela Buchanan MD wrote on LinkedIn with startling candour. She spoke not of privilege but of pain. “We are walking away,” she wrote, “not from medicine,...

Skilled Birth Attendance: FG Equips 1,400 Primary Health Care Centres The Ministry of Health has equiped 1,400 Primary Healthcare Centres to provide Skilled Birth attendance and reduce infant and maternal mortality in the country. The project, which covers 8,300 facilities, was funded through the National Primary...

Universal Health Coverage as a Renewed Hope for Nigerians By Rahma Olamide Oladosu Health, as a social service, is very important to the teeming population of any country as the sector has been recognised as the primary engine of growth and development. However, health care in Nigeria...

NHIA Guidelines and Pate's Move to Boost Population Health By Lawal Dahiru Mamman It is not uncommon to see the destitute in motor parks, religious centres, T-junctions and other places that pull crowds clutching a doctor's prescription, soliciting public support to purchase drugs. Others plead not to...

NHIA: We must Make Health Insurance Mandatory for all Nigerians - Betta Edu   The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has said the Federal Government needs to implement the mandatory aspect of the health insurance laws in the country to achieve...