Nigeria’s health system is not just underperforming — in many cases, it is dangerously broken. As I mourned my mother, I read about the tragic death of Nkanu, one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s twins. That news reopened wounds that were still raw. My late mother was also a twin, and the loss struck painfully close to home. This is no longer just grief. It is anger — and a demand to speak out. Over the years, my family and I have narrowly escaped medical disasters: • A wrong diagnosis that almost led to my young child undergoing an unnecessary, life-altering surgery. • My father’s near-death experience caused by poor coordination, faulty equipment, and a collapsed public hospital system. • My own escape from a dangerous misdiagnosis that could have placed me on insulin for life. • And finally, my mother’s last battle with cancer — marked not only by illness, but by avoidable pain, procedural neglect, and indignity. These experiences are not shared to attack individual hospitals or doctors, but to expose a systemic failure that continues to cost Nigerians their lives quietly and without accountability. Broken equipment, obsolete diagnostics, strikes, underpaid health workers, and weak regulation have turned hospitals into places of fear rather than healing. Meanwhile, our best doctors flee abroad, and ordinary Nigerians are left to gamble with their lives. Healthcare must be treated as critical national infrastructure — not a budgetary afterthought. Until government acts decisively and accountability is enforced, more families will continue to suffer in silence. Silence is no longer an option. #NigeriaHealthCrisis #Opinion #HealthcareInNigeria #MedicalNegligence #PatientSafety #HealthReform #NigeriaNews

Eredo PHC in Lagos Crumbles, Pregnant Women and Children Forced to Risky Journeys for Healthcare Residents of Eredo community, Epe, Lagos State, face a healthcare crisis as Ibowon Primary Health Centre deteriorates. With broken doors and windows, a damaged roof, unusable toilets, and missing medical equipment, the facility struggles to serve the growing population. Only one nurse and doctor are available. Pregnant women, children, the elderly, and chronically ill patients endure risky journeys for care. Civic tech group MonITNG urges Lagos State Government and federal authorities to urgently renovate, equip, and staff the PHC, stressing that access to quality primary healthcare is a basic human right. #LagosHealthCrisis #EredoPHC #NigeriaNews

🚨 UNICEF, WHO, World Bank Raise Alarm Over Rising Child Stunting in Africa A joint report by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank Group has revealed a worrying increase in child stunting across Africa, signaling a deepening public health and nutrition emergency. The report calls for urgent investment in child nutrition, healthcare access, and poverty alleviation to reverse the disturbing trend affecting millions of African children’s physical and cognitive development. #ChildHealthCrisis #StuntingInAfrica #UNICEF #WHO #WorldBankReport