🇳🇬 Nigeria: Nigerian Resident Doctors Commence Indefinite
** Nigeria's resident doctors have launched an indefinite strike, marking another critical juncture in the country's ongoing healthcare sector crisis...
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🇿🇦 SPOTLIGHT: Moonlighting, money and morals in a looted
South Africa's healthcare system faces a structural crisis that extends far beyond budget constraints. At its core lies a paradox: the government perm...
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🇳🇬 Rethinking government control in Nigeria’s regulatory bodies
Nigeria's ongoing institutional reform programme, anchored in the Oronsaye Report recommendations, represents one of Africa's most ambitious attempts ...
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🇳🇬 Fidson rakes in N77.8 billion from ethical drug sales,
Fidson Healthcare Plc has delivered a significant earnings milestone, posting total revenue of N119.06 billion (approximately €160 million) for 2025, ...
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🇳🇬 Resident doctors declare total strike over pay dispute
Nigeria's National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has initiated a comprehensive industrial action following protracted negotiations over compe...
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🇳🇬 Top 15 highest-paying healthcare jobs in Nigeria
Nigeria's healthcare sector is experiencing a critical wage inflation cycle that reveals both systemic challenges and untapped commercial opportunitie...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Insurance Sector Diverges Sharply
Nigeria's insurance sector is sending mixed signals to international investors, with three major listed insurers reporting starkly different trajector...
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🇳🇬 Sodium: CAPPA, stakeholders back NAFDAC to curb hypertension
Nigeria is stepping into a critical regulatory crossroads that could reshape its $40+ billion food and beverage sector. The National Agency for Food a...
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🇳🇬 A Vision for Nigerian Basic Education
Nigeria faces an education crisis of staggering proportions. With 18.3 million out-of-school children—representing nearly 40% of the school-age popula...
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🇳🇬 NIMR’s 400,000-sample Biobank set to transform disease
The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has officially launched one of Africa's largest biobanks, consolidating over 400,000 biological samp...
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🇰🇪 Ruto Defends Social Health Authority
President William Ruto's vigorous defence of Kenya's Social Health Authority (SHA) this week signals the government's firm commitment to one of Africa...
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🇿🇦 BHEKISISA: Can talks save South Africa’s NHI from a
South Africa's ambitious National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme faces a critical juncture as government officials attempt last-minute negotiations wit...
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🇳🇬 Counterfeit Otrivin floods market as NAFDAC orders urgent
Nigeria's pharmaceutical sector faces a critical credibility test as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) initiat...
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🇳🇬 Pharmacy law changes threaten public health
Nigeria's pharmaceutical industry—valued at approximately $4.8 billion and Africa's largest by market size—faces potential structural upheaval followi...
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🇺🇬 United States Government Transfers Over $100 Million in
The United States has formally transferred over $100 million in digital health infrastructure to Uganda, marking a significant inflection point in Eas...
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🇿🇦 PUBLIC HEALTHCARE: Danger theatres
South Africa's public healthcare system is experiencing a critical operational breakdown that extends far beyond a single hospital's mechanical failur...
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🇿🇦 Can talks save South Africa’s NHI from a courtroom war?
South Africa stands at a critical juncture. Two interconnected systemic challenges—the rollout of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme and deter...
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🇰🇪 Chinese firm Softcare to invest Sh698mn in Kenyan expansion
Softcare, a major Chinese manufacturer of hygiene and personal care products, is accelerating its presence in East Africa with a Kenyan investment pac...
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🇿🇦 Can Talks Save South Africa's NHI From A Courtroom War?
South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme—arguably the most contentious healthcare reform in the continent—is entering a critical negotiat...
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🇰🇪 For SMEs, health protection is business protection
East Africa's small and medium-sized enterprise sector is a growth engine that few European investors fully understand. Kenya alone hosts over 1.4 mil...
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