The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
Prof. Rufai Ahmed, Registrar of the Medical Rehabilitation Therapist Board of Nigeria, revealed that fewer than 4,000 physiotherapists practise in the country. This stark figure exposes a deep crisis in domestic healthcare staffing. Nearly ten thousand professionals hold registration credentials. The massive deficit stems from relentless professional migration, retirements, and deaths across the health sector….
Ninety one health workers were abducted and 15 others killed across 101 separate incidents of violence against healthcare in Nigeria between 2023 and 2025, according to conflict monitoring data compiled by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, laying bare the scale at which the country’s already fragile medical workforce is being drawn into…
Africa loses seven billion dollars every year to overseas healthcare as citizens flee broken domestic hospitals. More than 300,000 Africans travel to India alone each year for specialist treatment. The Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi revealed these figures at a media roundtable in Lagos. Chief Operating Officer Khurram Jamal criticised African governments for prioritising…
A doctor is attacked roughly once every two weeks in Nigeria’s hospitals, fresh figures from the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have shown, laying bare the deepening risks frontline health workers face in the very institutions where they save lives. No fewer than 30 resident doctors were assaulted across Nigeria within the last year,…